Series: Racism, Resistance and Social Change

This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence was used to invigorate racialised social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing the often-ignored history of anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, it pays particular attention to constructions of manhood within key moments...

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being 'beyond race'. Paying attention to the relationship between cultural capital and cultural repertoires, Meghji argues that there are three modes of Black middle-class identity: strategic assimilation, ethnoracial autonomous, and class-minded. Individuals...

Concepts of 'race' and racism are central to British history. They have shaped, and been shaped by, British identities, economies and societies for centuries, from colonialism and enslavement to the 'hostile environment' of the 2010s. Yet state and societal racism has always been met with resistance. This edited volume collects the latest research on anti-racist action in Britain, and makes...

Racism and the Cultural Politics of Punishment examines the narratives, claims, and imaginaries that legitimise punitive and discriminatory criminal justice policies and practices. Centring on the state's startlingly harsh response to the English 'riots' of 2011, the book combines unique insights from interviews with prosecutors, sentencers, defence lawyers, and policymakers, along with analysis of media and political debates. It examines...