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This key text explores the nature and extent of racial
discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal
opportunities programmes. A successful balance of important recent
articles and substantial contributions specially written for the
volume, it presents analyses of institutional racism in immigration
law, housing, social work, employment training and the criminal
justice system. The contributors explore changes over time and
examine the interwoven strands of `race', class and gender that
form the pattern of disadvantage. They then discuss the
formulation, implementation and outcomes of equal opportunities
policies in the local state and the private sector, rigorously
investigating both `liberal' and `radical' approaches. An analysis
is then presented of the political and ideological contentions that
influence the ways in which issues are defined and support is
mobilized and highlight the shortcomings of current legislation.
Racism and Antiracism - an Open University Reader for the course
`Race', Education and Society - will be essential reading for
teachers, students and all those concerned with discrimination and
with antiracist policy. MAJOR NEW SERIES ON RACE This trio of
co-ordinated books draws out underlying theoretical issues around
`race' and relates them to policy and practice. It analyzes the
relationship between racial inequalities and other types of social
division, such as those based on class and gender, and the
relationship between racial inequalities in education and other
areas of social life, especially employment and social welfare. It
introduces debates about cultural identity and difference and
discusses the formation of the dominant white culture. Individual
volumes in the series question commonsense and essentialist notions
of race; provide a critical survey of existing explanations of
racial differentiation; set race in a historical and social context
and show how the category has been constructed through economic,
political and cultural practices; highlight the role of educational
policies and practices in this process; and provide a critical
framework for the evaluation of existing initiatives in the areas
of multiculturalism, antiracism and equal opportunties. Although
Asian and Afro-Caribbean minority communities are the main point of
reference, comparisons are made to the position of other ethnic
minorities.
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