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Anti-racism: totem and taboo – a review article

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Race & Class, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 78 - 87

Swansea University Author: Jon Burnett Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0306396815582006

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Anti-anti-racism is seeing a renascence in the UK. Against a backdrop of punishing austerity measures, the ascent of the neoliberal project and the undermining of multiculturalism, this resurgent critique decries anti-racism as set against white communities, argues that it exists primarily to serve...

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Published in: Race & Class
ISSN: 0306-3968 1741-3125
Published: 2015
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