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Wendy Ball (Research Fellow, Lecturer)⁰,
John Solomos (Lecturer)¹

Wendy Ball
1. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
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John Solomos
1. Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xv

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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
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
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
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.

Editors and Affiliations

Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

Wendy Ball
Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

John Solomos

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Race and Local Politics
Editors: Wendy Ball, John Solomos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21028-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21028-2Published: 12 October 1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 244
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnicity Studies, Political Science

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Front Matter

History and Background

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Policy Arenas

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Rethinking Racial Equality

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Back Matter

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Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

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

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