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‘May we bring harmony’? Thatcher’s legacy on ‘race’
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- A book setting out the New Right’s line on multiracial education and racism was published
- For an analysis on how this worked see Nancy Murray ‘The press and ideology in Thatcher’s Britain’
- There were a number of different strains within the New Right – ranging from libertarian beliefs in a laissez-faire economy and individual freedoms to the social authoritarian emphasis on maintaining order and a strong state
- ‘The ensuing scramble for government favours and government grants (channelled through local authorities) on the basis of specific ethnic needs and problems served on the one hand, to deepen ethnic differences and foster ethnic rivalry and, on the other, to widen the definition of ethnicity to include a variety of national and religious groups – Chinese, Cypriots, Greeks, Turks, Irish, Italians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs – till the term became meaningless (except as a means of getting funds).’ A. Sivanandan in ‘RAT and the degradation of black struggle’
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