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Race and the Undeserving Poor - From Abolition to Brexit (Paperback)
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Race and the Undeserving Poor - From Abolition to Brexit (Paperback)
Series: Building Progressive Alternatives
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Over recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the
concept of the "white working class", those thought to have been
"left behind" by globalization, including immigration. Such
sentiments were weaponized by politicians on all sides to fuel the
anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Brexit campaign. And this racialized
narrative has emerged repeatedly in mature democracies - in the
political campaigns of Trump, Le Pen and others - and continues to
gain traction in the guise of economic nationalism and populism.
The need to understand the putative emergence of the white working
class has become both intellectually significant and politically
urgent. In Race and the Undeserving Poor, Robbie Shilliam does just
this. He charts the development over the past 200 years of a
shifting postcolonial settlement that has produced a racialized
distinction between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the
latest incarnation of which is a distinction between a deserving,
neglected white working class and "others" who are undeserving, not
indigenous, and not white. Shilliam's analysis shows that the white
working class are not an indigenous constituency, but a product of
the struggles to consolidate and defend imperial order that have
shaped British society since the abolition of slavery.
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