Racism and Poverty

Abstract

Any understanding of the distribution of poverty and inequality in society must pay attention to the impact of this on significant social divisions and cultural differences. In modern British society this involves recognising and analysing the impact of racism within the social structure. In broad terms modern Britain is a racist society in that there is significant evidence that black and other minority ethnic communities experience discrimination and disadvantage on a disproportionate basis, and this cannot be explained merely as result of chance or misfortune.