Race and Local Politics

1. Front Matter

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2. History and Background

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Racial Equality and Local Politics

      • Wendy Ball, John Solomos

      Pages 3-21

   3. Approaches to Policy Development in the Field of Equal Opportunities

      • Ken Young

      Pages 22-42

3. Policy Arenas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Competing Conceptions of ‘Fairness’ and the Formulation and Implementation of Equal Opportunities Policies

      • David Mason

      Pages 45-61

   3. Social Services Departments: The Process and Progress of Change

      • Naomi Connelly

      Pages 62-77

   4. Pragmatism or Retreat? Funding Policy, Local Government and the Marginalisation of Anti-Racist Education

      • Wendy Ball, William Gulam, Barry Troyna

      Pages 78-94

   5. Racial Equality, Housing and the Local State

      • John Solomos, Gurharpal Singh

      Pages 95-114

   6. Reifying Crime, Legitimising Racism: Policing, Local Authorities and Left Realism

      • Michael Keith, Karim Murji

      Pages 115-131

   7. Resisting Institutional Change

      • Herman Ouseley

      Pages 132-152

4. Rethinking Racial Equality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Race Policies in Local Government: Boundaries or Thresholds?

      • Phil Nanton, Marian Fitzgerald

      Pages 155-174

   3. A Dirty War: the New Right and Local Authority Anti-Racism

      • Paul Gordon

      Pages 175-190

   4. The End of Anti-Racism

      • Paul Gilroy

      Pages 191-209

   5. New Initiatives and the Possibilities of Reform

      • John Solomos, Wendy Ball

      Pages 210-224

5. Back Matter

   Pages 225-244

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Aims to provide a detailed overview of policy conflict and change in the area of race relations and local politics during the 1980s and reviews some of the prospects for the 1990s. It assesses the objectives, development and impact of race-related policies developed by local authorities.

• conflict
• crime
• government
• Institution
• Policy
• politics

• Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

  Wendy Ball

• Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

  John Solomos

Policies and ethics