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Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain
Racism, Resistance and Social Change
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33,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 05.02.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526125309 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 272 |
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This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons, which had seen a growth in more militant forms of resistance since the Second World War. It explains these disturbances as ‘collective bargaining by riot’ – attempts to increase political inclusion by this marginalised group. Through case studies of Bristol, Brixton and Manchester, the book explores the actions of community organisations in the aftermath of disorders. Highlighting the political activities of black Britons and the often-problematic reliance upon ‘official’ sources when forming historical narratives, it demonstrates the contested value awarded to public inquiries – contrastingly viewed by black Britons as either a method for increased political participation or simply a governmental diversionary tactic.
Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as ‘collective bargaining by riot’. Utilising many original sources, it charts dichotomous attitudes towards public inquiries and discussions of increased political participation.
<p>Introduction<br> 1 Resistance to rebellion<br> 2 ‘No other way to make their points of view known’? St Pauls, Bristol, 2 April 1980<br> 3 Lacking conviction: inquiries and trials after Bristol<br> 4 Escalation: Brixton, 10–12 April 1981<br> 5 ‘The Brixton Defence Campaign says boycott the Scarman Inquiry’<br> 6 A ‘conspicuous success’? Policing Liverpool and Manchester in July 1981<br> 7 ‘Who the hell’s defending if they’re going to walk out of here?’ The Moss Side Defence Committee<br> Epilogue: ‘Turning point’ or ‘opportunity lost’? The legacy of 1980–1<br>Index</p>
Simon Peplow is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century British History at the University of Warwick
<p>This is the first book-length historical study of the collective anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980–81; the earliest confrontations between the state and members of the British public during Margaret Thatcher’s divisive government. This powerful and original book is centred around three case studies – Bristol, Brixton and Manchester – which locate these disturbances within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons.<br><br> <i>Race and riots in Thatcher’s Britain</i> argues that these events should be viewed as ‘collective bargaining by riot’, an attempt to achieve increased political inclusion for marginalised black Britons. Peplow focuses on the political activities of black Britons and explores the actions of community organisations in the aftermath of disorders to highlight dichotomous valuations of state mechanisms. A key focus is public inquiries, which were contrastingly viewed by black Britons as either a governmental diversionary tactic, or a method of legitimising their inclusion within the British constitutional system. <br><br> Through the study of a wide range of newly-available archives, interviews, under-studied local sources and records of grassroots black political organisations, Peplow’s work expands our understanding of protest movements and community activism in modern democracies. It also highlights an often-problematic reliance upon ‘official’ sources when forming historical narratives, and makes a pertinent contribution to current discussions surrounding government responses to contemporary events.</p>
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