The years 1965-8 were the 'liberal hour' for race relations policy in Britain. Laws were then enacted, enforcement agencies created, and community relations councils established. These bodies, and their personnel, have been called 'the race relations industry'. To many people, the output of this 'industry' appears disappointing relative to the input into it. This book examines a variety of optimistic assumptions about the speed with which immigrants adjust to a new environment; inadequate minority bargaining power; insufficiently speedy and decisive action by the central government; unwillingness on the part of the white majority to accept the desirability of such action; and the difficulty of fitting a race relations policy into an administrative system created to serve an ethnically homogeneous population. The policies initiated in 1965 reflected the ascendancy of liberal over conservative assumptions about race relations. Now these are under sharp attack from a radical standpoint. Promoting Racial Harmony shows how the debate has changed, drawing upon recent economic theory to formulate the issues in an original but non-technical manner.
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Examines "the race relations industry" phenomenon in Britain in an effort to reveal why the output of the liberal period in British race relations of the mid-sixties seems "low" relative to the effort and support put into it. -- Book Description
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United States, West Indian, Home Office, New Commonwealth, Select Committee, Home Secretary, Community Relations Commission, Race Relations Board, United Kingdom, East Africa, Race Relations Act, West Indies, Colonial Office, House of Commons, Runnymede Trust, Mark Bonham Carter, Commonwealth Immigration Act, Department of Employment, Members of Parliament, Northern Ireland, British Airways, David Beetham, Nicholas Deakin, Sir Arthur Keith, South Africa New!
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ethnic collective action, race relations industry, promoting racial harmony, sending society, community relations council, race relations policy, local community relations, commonwealth immigrants, racial disadvantage, ethnic minority members, receiving society, minority representatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, West Indian, Home Office, New Commonwealth, Select Committee, Home Secretary, Community Relations Commission, Race Relations Board, United Kingdom, East Africa, Race Relations Act, West Indies, Colonial Office, House of Commons, Runnymede Trust, Mark Bonham Carter, Commonwealth Immigration Act, Department of Employment, Members of Parliament, Northern Ireland, British Airways, David Beetham, Nicholas Deakin, Sir Arthur Keith, South Africa New!
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- Race Relations by Michael P. Banton in Back Matter
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