New Racial Landscapes Contemporary Britain and the Neoliberal Conjuncture [Paperback]

The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis. A key aspect of neoliberal thought is the belief that we live in a post-racial society in which the problems of racism and xenophobia have been overcome. However, cultural retrenchment and coded xenophobia have been sweeping the political terrain, accompanied by new racisms and new racial subjects that only close contextual analysis can unpick. The scholarship contained in this collection challenges those who suggest that we live in a post-racial era. By focusing on particular locations in Britain at a particular moment, the volume explores local stories of race and racism across changing sociopolitical ground. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of race, racism, diaspora, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, transnationalism and post-race.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Introduction: New racisms, new racial subjects? The neo-liberal moment and the racial landscape of contemporary Britain Victoria Redclift  Section 1: Policies of otherness, multiculture and difference  1. Giving the silent majority a stronger voice? Initiatives to empower Muslim women as part of the UKs War on Terror Naaz Rashid  2. The best borough in the country for cohesion!: managing place and multiculture in local government Hannah Jones  Section 2: Sub-cultural spaces of community  3. Transgressing community: the case of Muslims in a twenty-first century British city Ajmal Hussain  4. No caps, no coconuts, no all-male groups...the regulation of unruly Asians in London clubs Helen Kim  Section 3: Nostalgia, belonging and territory  &ll³,