New Right, New Racism is a comparative analysis of the role of racialized symbols in the right turn of US and British politics in the late 1970s through to today. The author argues that the symbol of race has been central to the New Right's project to redefine the cultural codes and broader social imaginary upon which the consensus politics of the post-war years was built. In the process of mobilizing race as an ideological articulator of the exit from consensus politics, the New Right has promoted a new form of racism qualitatively distinct from more traditional forms.

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Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

Amy Elizabeth Ansell

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Book Title: New Right, New Racism
Book Subtitle: Race and Reaction in the United States and Britain
Authors: Amy Elizabeth Ansell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13927-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-13927-9Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 351
Topics: British Politics, Political Theory, Human Rights

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: The New Right — Storm-Troopers in the Name of Liberty

Race and the Right Turn: The Symbolic Conflict Approach

The New Right Racial Backlash: A New Racism

The New Right in the United States: Color-Blind Discourse and the Politics of Reverse Racism

The British New Right: A Discourse of Culture, Nation, and Race

The New Racism and the Racial State

Conclusion: Challenging the New Racism; Combating the New Right

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