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The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain.
THE END OF TOLERANCE: RACISM IN 21ST CENTURY BRITAIN
By Arun Kundnani
Pluto Press, 240 pages
RACISMS HAVE specific cultural and historical trajectories. With its heavy legacies of slavery, North-South tensions on migration and new and specific conjurings of "security," the United States appears to have taken a particular path with unique problems. But Arun Kundnani's primer on issues of race, migration and (to a lesser extent) class in Britain suggests that the U.S. shares with other Western capitalist democracies a common place in history and the global economy that shapes its relations with "other" populations.
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Britain's race-relations problems, as sketched by Kundnani, have remarkable similarities with its American counterparts: originating in imperial anxieties (London headed East; Washington went West), rooted in the ...
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