Urban Politics and Racial Inequality

Abstract

In previous chapters we have noted that the politicisation of the public debate about race and immigration in Britain has been partly determined by local political processes. As was shown in Chapters 3 and 4 a number of local authorities, pressure groups and individuals have raised the question of the impact of immigration on their specific localities. Moreover, throughout the 1950s and 1960s the local political élite in areas such as London, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and other localities had to come to terms with the increasingly multiracial composition of their localities.