POLI20532 Course Outline 1112 - School of Social Sciences

POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12
Zig Layton-Henry
‘Immigration and the Heath government’ in Ball
and Seldon The Heath Government 1970-1974, pp.
215-34.
Martin Walker The National Front, 1977.
S.Saggar Race and British Electoral Politics (1998).
Bill Schwarz
'Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette':
Reflections on the Emergence of Post-colonial
Britain', Twentieth Century British History, 14 (2003),
pp. 264-285
S. Taylor The National Front in English Politics, 1982.
A. Messina Race and Party Competition in Britain, 1989. (Also
article of same title in Parliamentary Affairs, 38, 4, 1985,
423-36).
Frank Reeves
British Racial Discourse, A study of British political
discourse about race and race-related matters, 1983, esp.
ch. 5: ‘British political values and race relations’
(ii)
on the politics of national identity
Political Quarterly special issue on ‘The End of Britain’, vol 71, 1,
2000, pp1-67, esp articles by Parekh, ‘Defining British
national identity’, Kearney, ‘The importance of being
British’, Harvie, ‘The moment of British nationalism
1939-70’ and Lynch, ‘The Conservative Party
nationhood’
Keith Robbins
Great Britain: identities, institutions and the idea of
Britishness, 1998
Paul Ward Britishness since 1870, 2004, ch. 6
Wendy Webster Englishness and Empire, 2005
Wendy Webster
‘“There’ll always be an England”: representations
of colonial wars and immigration’, Journal of British
Studies, 40, 2001, 557-84
Richard Weight Patriots: national identity in Britain, 1940-2000
7.6 Exam preparation
This section of the course is concerned with facing-up to Britain’s multi-ethnic, multinational
culture. The subject of ‘racialisation’ covers the historical context of industrial
recovery and labour shortages, pragmatism and populism and the contemporary reality of
multi-racial Britain. You should be able to analyse the reaction of fringe and mainstream
political parties to the politics of ‘race’ and immigration. The lecture will outline the different
approaches to the issues of race since the 1950s and the potential for the growth of extremist
right-wing parties explored. You should familiarise yourself with the approaches to
‘racialisation’ and the contemporary reaction to Europeanisation, non-EU immigration and
the popular expressions of racial politics in Britain.
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