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The late 1970s saw a marked rise in youth unemployment and also in the level of popular support for the National Front, especially amongst white working-class boys growing up in multiracial neighbourhoods. The left was quick to seize on the connection as confirmation of its prevailing economistic theory of racism.
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© 1997 Phil Cohen
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Cohen, P. (1997). On the Wrong Side of the Tracks: The Cultural Geography of Adolescent Racism in a White Working-Class Community. In: Rethinking the Youth Question. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25390-6_7
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