When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.
Articles on Enoch Powell
Displaying all articles
Pegging slurs as a gimmick or banter, not only dishonours those who have died fighting against racism. It dilutes the violence racial slurs carry.
Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
The unique parliamentarian who coined the West Lothian question.
Alf Garnett was a blue-collar bigot for the ages. You still don’t have to go far to hear people spout his appalling views even today.
Top contributors
-
Lecturer in Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University; Independent Social Research Foundation
-
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
-
Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
-
Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-
Senior Legacy in Action Research Fellow, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University