Black British, White British. A History Of Race Relations In Britain

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Grafton
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1991
Edition: Reprint

Description: 355 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Now revised and expanded, Black British, White British has become the definitive history of race relations in Britain. In this sympathetic and admirably documented account, Dilip Hiro charts the fortunes of Britains African, Asian and Caribbean communities over the last four decades. He describes their cultures, the reasons for their arrival in the UK, and the overt and covert prejudices they have encountered since.Twenty years ago, Hiros premise was that racism is deeply embedded in white British society and eradicating it would take generations. The Race Relations Act of 1965 may have made No coloured signs illegal, but a generation later such events as the Brixton and Toxteth riots and the Salman Rushdie affair reveal that racism is an issue as explosive as ever.Is assimilation or social pluralism the way forward What does it mean to be British Why do a great number of people still believe that blackness precludes Britishness These are questions that will not go away. Dilip Hiro, in this ground-breaking text, tackles them head on.

ISBN: 9780246136183