Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider by Satnam Virdee

Author:Satnam Virdee [Virdee, Satnam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-06-23T18:30:00+00:00

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Racism: From the Welfare Settlement to Enoch Powell

It is true that the war effort of 1939–1945 produced much more social egalitarianism in England than any other event in her recent history . . . . Yet – paradoxically – it also contained the social upheaval more firmly than ever in a renewed “national” ideology of unity, a sense of patriotic purpose and regeneration.

(Nairn 1970: 16)

. . . the attitude of racial superiority on the part of white workers relegates their black comrades to the bottom of society. In the event, they come to constitute a class apart, an under-class: the sub-proletariat. And the common denominator of capitalist oppression is not sufficient to bind them together in a common purpose.

(Sivanandan 1977: 339)

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