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‘Race’ is probably one of the most over-used, under-defined words in common usage; so I want to begin by indicating what I mean by race in Britain today. I am using the word in the popular sense in which we speak of the British race or the German race, and in which the term is apparently used in the Race Relations Acts of 1965, 1968 and 1976. I am thus not using the word in its more precise scientific meaning. Let me first say a word, however, about that more precise scientific meaning.
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Hick, J. (1980). The wider context: Christianity and race in Britain today. In: God has Many Names. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16308-3_2
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