Not Easy Being British: Colour, Culture And Citizenship

Abstract

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.

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