Publisher's Synopsis
The 1980s saw an attempt to promote an antiracism of colour-consciousness and class analysis. A result was to marginalise or make invisible many aspects of ethnic minority, especially British Asian communities.;Some of these aspects, such as the rejection of an imposed black political identity, upward socio-economic mobility on the part of some groups and emergence of Muslim activism amongst a new type of underclass, are now becoming visible but cannot be understood by British race sociology and the social policies informed by it.;Tariq Modood offers a series of reflections and critiques in which he argues that we need to re-think the field of race relations and equality if we are to make space for the new communities and redefine our sense of what it means to be British.
