White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 13
The ‘white backlash’......Page 16
Second wave......Page 21
The ‘new class’......Page 23
Multicultural discourse and its others......Page 26
The development of civil rights......Page 30
The neo-liberal agenda......Page 31
The Republican dawning......Page 33
Early working-class backlash in the UK and the USA and its political allies......Page 35
Enoch Powell in the 1960s......Page 36
After Powell......Page 39
The New Left in the UK......Page 42
3 Greenwich and its racial murders......Page 47
Industrial Greenwich and the turning tide......Page 48
Eltham......Page 53
The first murder – Rolan Adams......Page 56
The third murder – Stephen Lawrence......Page 62
New anti-racism......Page 64
4 Narrative, counter-narrative and the boundaries of legitimate discourse......Page 68
Counter-narratives......Page 69
‘Three black boys at the scene of Stephen Lawrence's murder’......Page 76
Having ‘a voice’ and having a politics......Page 79
Narrative and race......Page 82
The rise of the counter-narrative and the boundaries of legitimate discourse......Page 83
About ‘truth’......Page 87
5 Residence and resistance: the case of the Eltham Tenants Forum......Page 91
BEMTA at the Eltham Tenants Forum......Page 100
Reflections......Page 107
6 ‘Race’ and ‘culture’ in education: from neighbourhood schools to the multicultural highway......Page 115
Race, equality and multicultural education......Page 117
Desegregation, bussing and the white backlash in the USA......Page 119
Education and multiculturalism in the UK......Page 128
Education in Greenwich......Page 133
The ‘wages of whiteness’?......Page 136
‘Culture’ lost and found......Page 137
Coda......Page 142
Canada, Australia: state-sponsored multiculturalism and its others......Page 144
Backlash in Canada......Page 146
Australia's backlash......Page 151
Individual and collective justice......Page 156
The contemporary predicament......Page 161
Theory meets politics......Page 163
Select bibliography......Page 169
Index......Page 178