Abstract
Chapeltown is a district just north of the centre of the city of Leeds. This chapter provides brief details of a number of social and political mobilisations around issues of racism and ethnicity in the area between 1972 and 1997. Setting these campaigns in the context of rising unemployment and improved environmental conditions, the chapter argues that the 1970s saw the emergence of effective urban social movements, and seeks to explain the decline of these movements into smaller campaigns in the 1980s and partial struggles in the 1990s.
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Farrar, M. (1999). Social Movements in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City: Explaining their Rise and Fall over 25 Years. In: Bagguley, P., Hearn, J. (eds) Transforming Politics. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27429-1_6
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