Race and party competition in Britain / Anthony M. Messina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messina, Anthony M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Race relations.

Racism--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Racism.

Political parties--Great Britain.

Political parties.

Racism--Political aspects.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiv, 200 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

Few subjects in the postwar period have raised as many important questions about the condition of British society as the issue of race. Yet since its emergence as a salient public concern in the 1950s, party political discussion of race has been rare. This book focuses on the politics of race in Britain since 1958. Messina links the Conservative and Labour parties' neglect of race to the requirements and patterns of party interaction engendered by the postwar political consensus, examines the bipartisan efforts to keep race off the political agenda, and the public protests these moves generated. He also considers the renewal of party competition on race in the 1980s and its implications for nonwhite political representation in the years to come.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

019827534X :

OCLC:

19123065