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Liquid racism : Brexit, education and road culture / Nathan Kerrigan, Damian Breen and Yusef Bakkali.

De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kerrigan, Nathan, author.
Breen, Damian, 1982- author.
Bakkali, Yusef, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017--Influence.
Bauman, Zygmunt.
Racism--x Political aspects--Great Britain--History--21st century.
Racism.
Great Britain--Race relations--History--21st century.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (v, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
Summary:
This innovative book takes Bauman's notions of 'liquid modernity' one step further to develop a theory of 'liquid racism'. The authors show that while post-race theory argues that society is moving beyond racism, in reality, historical manifestations of racism continue. Except, society is now faced with a racism whose structures have changed.
Contents:
Front Cover
Liquid Racism: Brexit, Education and Road Culture
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Zygmunt Bauman, Liquidity and Racism
Liquid modernity
'Race', racism and Bauman
Liquid racism
Key concepts and terms
Overview of the chapters
2 Revisiting the Postmodernity/Liquid Modernity Debate
Introduction
The modernity/postmodernity debate in social theory
Racism and the modernity/postmodernity debate
Zygmunt Bauman: from postmodernity to 'liquid' modernity
Racism in a 'liquid' modern world
Conclusion
3 Race, Postrace and the False Promises of the Postracial State
What is a postracial society?
The postracial state as postracial fallacy: the US and the UK
The UK, postracialism and the multicultural project
Implications of notional postracialism: what about the 'white' working class?
4 Liquid Racism and Brexit
Globalization, liquid fear and the migrant 'other'
Brexit, retrotopia and the management of fear
Liquid racist dimensions of the 'Leave' campaigns
Liquid racism and the 'Remainer' argument
Brexit, glaciation and the resolidification of racism
5 Liquid Racism and Education
Race and education in liquid modernity
The case in context: politics, education and race
Immigration and education in liquid modernity
Tacit intentionality and the displacement of Black British groups from compulsory education
Liquid racism in action: opening the dam on attainment benchmark measures
6 Liquid Racism and Road Culture(s)
Road culture and street masculinities
Street masculinities and road life: a confluence of causes
UK rap and genealogies of racialized exclusion
The digital revolution: liquefaction and new flows.
The market
Attitudes and responses in policy: resolidifying and upping the viscosity
7 Conclusion: The viscosity of contemporary racism(s)
Concluding thoughts
References
Index.
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-5292-1851-9
1-5292-1850-0
OCLC:
1521232924

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