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How racist is society today? How have the patterns of discrimination and disadvantage changed over the past twenty years? This key text explores the nature and extent of racial discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal opportunities programmes.

Incisive analyses focus upon the operation of institutional racism in immigration law, housing, social work, employment training and the criminal justice system. They explore changes over time and examine the interwoven strands of `race', class and gender that form the pattern of disadvantage.

This provides a context for a critical discussion of the formulation, implementation and outcomes of equal opportunities policies in the local state and the private sector. The authors rigorously investigate both `liberal' and `radical' approaches to equal opportunities in the area of `race'. They analyze the political and ideological contentions that influence the ways in which issues are defined and support is mobilized. They also highlight the shortcomings of current legislation.

A successful balance of important recent articles and substantial contributions specially written for this text, Racism and Antiracism will be essential reading for teachers, students and all those concerned with discrimination and with antiracist policy. Although rooted in the British experience, it addresses issues and problems common to many Western societies.

An Open University Reader for the course `Race', Education and Society.

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This invaluable book offers a brief and accessible summary of knowledge about social divisions by `race' in Britain The new edition brings the information up-to-date and expands discussion of important questions on immigration and crime statistics.

It contains a wealth of information on the experiences and life chances of black people - in education, the labour market, health, welfare, housing and the criminal justice system. It both illuminates general issues of `race' and racism - in so far as they are quantifiable - and provides helpful demographic background on specific minority ethnic groups. It also locates `race' within the context of other divisions in society, notably class and gender.

Drawing upon both official statistics and alternative research, this lucid and up to date survey will inform current debates on the effectiveness of antiracist policies, the extent of racism, migration and Europe. What are the actual patterns of migration to and from Britain? How do Bangladeshi children really perform at school? Is it true that Afro-Caribbeans are more likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenic?

An illuminating introductory essay examines the problems of using official statistics on matters of `race'. It looks into the reasoning behind decisions to collect particular data and the ways in which the statistics are defined, analyzed and interpreted.

`Race' in Britain Todaywill be an essential resource for all those concerned with racial discrimination in British society, whether as students of sociology, education, social policy or medicine; or as practitioners in the public or commercial sectors responsible for implementing equal opportunities policies.

Reviews of the First Edition:

`It certainly is a resource, and very well worth owning because the density of statistical information across a wide range of topics of study merits recurrent reference. It holds interest well outside the field of the OU course alone; I found that it was picked up eagerly by colleagues interested in the data provided on, for example, demographic trends, immigration, racial violence and harassment, inequality and poverty, health, social services, housing, criminal justice, education, and the labour market. Information is laid out clearly and economically in tables, graphs and maps, and commentary in the text is easily related to these' - Journal of Biosocial Science

`A very readable book, written clearly and in which the information is presented accessibly.... This is a very useful and interesting book which provides a wealth of information. It is a text to be recommended not only to the Open University student but also any social science student, academic or public sector practitioner' - European Journal of Intercultural Studies

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