ISBN:
9781137439475
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
305.800941
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This insightful text offers an original perspective on the significance of both racism and anti-racism in structuring the English working class. Through the unique concept of the racialized outsider, Virdee demonstrates the contribution of Irish Catholics, Jews, Asians and the African diaspora to the making of a more inclusive, democratic society.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The contours of the argument -- 2 Class, Nation and the Racialized Outsider -- Introduction -- 'The ready made nucleus of degradation and disorder': The Irish Catholic worker and the class struggle -- Black radicals as linchpin of the anti-slavery movement -- Class over nation and the significance of the racialized outsider -- Chartism and the multi-ethnic proletariat -- 3 Racism and the Contradictions of Socialist Nationalism -- Introduction -- Racism and the unmaking of the working class -- Liberalism and the aristocracy of labour -- The new unionism or the revolt of the 'residuum' -- Anti-semitism and the limits of socialist nationalism -- 4 Race, Empire and Its Discontents -- Introduction -- 'Half-devil and half-child': Elite racism and the new imperialism -- Empire in the working class imaginary -- Integration in the nation -- Internationalism in the age of imperialism I: James Connolly -- Internationalism in the age of imperialism II: Jewish socialists -- 5 Class War, Racist Riots and Communism -- Introduction -- War, proletarian rebellion and racism -- Racists, Reds and the revolt on the Clyde -- A party of outsiders: The CPGB -- The CPGB, anti-imperialism and anti-racism -- 6 Racism: From the Welfare Settlement to Enoch Powell -- Introduction -- 'You've never had it so good': Racism in the age of affluence and national unity -- The CPGB and the British Road to Socialism -- Decolonization, 'nigger-hunting' and state racism -- Enoch Powell, racist strikes and socialist inaction -- Black resistance -- 7 Socialists, Anti-Racism and Working Class Bifurcation -- Introduction -- Class conflict, socialist activism and anti-racism -- Rock Against Racism (RAR) -- The Grunwick strike -- 'We are black, we are white, together we are dynamite': The Anti-Nazi League.
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