Description
Book SynopsisAn insightful analysis examining race, the state, the media and criminalisation in Britain
Trade Review'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent, this book punctures the puffed-up nationalist swagger of our government with an incisive critique of post-imperial decline'
-- Ash Sarkar, journalist, activist and Senior Editor at Novara Media
'A metaphorical molotov from beyond the barricades'
-- Lowkey, rapper and activist
'Challenges us to step outside of the tempo of the hot-take and the electoral cycle to look beyond party-political rows. As training, allyship and inclusion increasingly become the favoured response to Black Lives Matter, the book invites us to build the relationships and structures of care so necessary for a collective freedom'
-- Gracie Bradley, Interim Director at Liberty
'A new and much-needed analysis of the confluence of race, government, and the media during these turbulent times'
-- Democratic Left
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Preface
Introduction: Racialised Mythologies in Times of Neglect, Cruelty and Expulsion
PART 1 - RACIALISING THE CRISIS
1. Windrush
2. ‘Knife Crime’: Prevention and Order
3. Gang Land
PART 2 - THE PERSISTENCE OF NATIONALISM
4. Nationalist Convulsions
5. Progressive Patriotism
6. The Limits of Representation
PART 3 - STATE PATRIARCH
7. Our Heart Belongs to Daddy
8. ‘Pakistani Grooming Gangs’
9. (Powerful) Men Behaving Badly
PART 4 - SEND IN THE ARMY
10. Longing for Authority
11. Militarisation on the Mainland
12. Zero-sum Game
PART 5 - WHAT NOW?
13. Covid-19: A Real Crisis
14. Shared Grief, Hope and Resistance
Notes
Index
