New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990

by Anna Marie Smith

Overview

The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a ground-breaking study of racism and homophobia in British politics. Anna Marie Smith analyzes two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968-72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. She challenges the silence on issues of race and sexuality in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late-twentieth-century Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521459211
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/10/1994
Series:	Cultural Margins , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Thatcherism, the new racism, and the British New Right: hegemonic imaginary or accidental mirage?; 2. Derrida's 'infrastructure' of supplementarity; 3. Separating difference from what it can do: nihilism and bio-power relations; 4. Powellism: the black immigrant as the post-colonial symptom and the phantasmatic re-closure of the British nation; 5. Thatcherism's promotion of homosexuality; Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"It is a project which addresses one of the most compelling issues of our time—an issue central to the survival and future well-being of gay and lesbian people (not to mention a great many other groups)." Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies

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