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  • 1 - From Empire to Multicultural Democracy?

  • from Part I - Beginnings: Routes to the Present
  • Les Back, University of Glasgow, Michael Keith, University of Oxford, Kalbir Shukra, Goldsmiths, University of London, John Solomos, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    The Unfinished Politics of Race
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 17-29

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines the historical background to the present by analysing the transition from empire to multicultural democracy that took place in the second half of the twentieth century. It situates the post-1945 history of race and immigration within a broader frame that includes both the role of race in the wider context and deeper history of the British Empire as well as the national and local experiences of race within the ‘mother country’ over a much longer history. We argue in this chapter that it is simplistic to see the postcolonial period as one that saw the move from empire to multicultural democracy. Rather, we suggest that it is important to provide a conceptual and empirical frame that highlights the ways in which processes of racialisation and exclusion helped to fashion a particular politics around race in British society whose consequences remain with us today. And so, we also outline the conceptual frame that we use in the book to explore the changing spheres of political incorporation that have shaped the position of minorities in British society.