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The role of the settlement area in British race relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

M. H. Lyon
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, King's College, University of Aberdeen

Extract

This paper attempts to analyse some of the local social structural factors accounting for racial attitudes towards coloured settlers, and will concentrate particularly on the way in which the coloured settlement zones, often known loosely as ghettos, promote the formation of racial attitudes and relationships in Britain.

Type
Sociological aspects
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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