1st Edition

Racialised Barriers The Black Experience in the United States and England in the 1980's

By Stephen Small Copyright 1994
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    A systematic comparison of key differences and similarities in the experience of black people in the US and England amidst racial hostility. Small argues for an approach to combatting this built on shared racial identities.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Black people in the United States and England: A profile of the 1980s; Chapter 3 Racialised ideologies, class relations and the state; Chapter 4 Stratification and the Black ‘middle class’: talented tenth or Black bourgeoisie?; Chapter 5 Racialised integration, harmony and parity; Chapter 6 Still catchin’ hell;

    Biography

    Stephen Small lectures in Sociology at the University of Leicester.

    `.... is among the best comparative analysis of racial issues to have appeared in recent years ...'