Description
Book SynopsisA radical exploration of the origins of the Anglo-American race relations industry
Trade Review'Provides a critical account of the changing balance of power between western nations and the Third World since the second world war and the unspoken racial fears of ruling elites over that period ... an unusually candid critique of the 'fashionable' obsession with prejudice' -- Times Higher Education Supplement
'An important work that asks important questions about the struggle for racial equality today, and adds new insights into the history of racial thinking' -- Independent on Sunday
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. The Troubled White Consensus
2. Early Warnings – Presentiment of Racial Conflict
3. The New Racial Pragmatism
4. Reversing the Problem of Racism
5. Crossing the Boundary – The Marginal Man
6. The Second World War as Race War
7. As An International Issue
8. The Silent Fifties – Redefining the Issue of Racism
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
