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by Reni Eddo-Lodge


  26‘Ethnic Boards Target “Too Ambitious”’, Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2014.

  27Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, Justice for the 21st Century, Caroline Weatherill Lecture, Isle of Man, 9 October 2015.

  28The story of Dame Linda Dobbs, First 100 Years, 8 March 2016, http://first100years.org.uk/the-story-of-dame-linda-dobbs/

  29‘City Women Call for Quotas to Combat Sexism’, Financial Times, 15 January 2015.

  30‘Construction Industry Calls for Quotas to Ease Gender Inequality’, Architects’ Journal, 30 January 2013.

  31‘Ofsted “Positive Discrimination” Call’, BBC News, 7 January 2015.

  32‘Police Chief Calls For Positive Discrimination’, Daily Telegraph, 28 January 2013.

  3: WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE?

  1‘Can White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized?’, Theodore W. Allen, independent pamphlet, Brooklyn New York, 1967.

  2‘How I Started the Diane Abbott Twitter Storm’, theguardian.com, 5 January 2012.

  3‘Was Diane Abbott’s Tweet Racist?’, telegraph.co.uk, 5 January 2012.

  4‘Abbott, White People and Twitter’, labourlist.org, 5 January 2012.

  5‘Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life House of Commons Library Briefing Paper’, Lukas Audickas, 28 June 2016.

  6‘Diane Abbott’s Tweet and the Red Herring of Anti-White Racism’, theguardian.com, 6 January 2012.

  7‘Stephen Lawrence’s Family Criticise Police over Alleged Spy Plot’, theguardian.com, 2 March 2016.

  8‘IS Network: Self-Flagellation and the “Kinky Split”’, weeklyworker.co.uk, 13 February 2014.

  9‘Safe Space or Free Speech? The Crisis Around Debate at UK Universities’, Ian Dunt, theguardian.com, 6 February 2016.

  10‘Letter From the Birmingham Jail’, 16 April 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr, Martin Luther King, Jr Research and Education Institute.

  11‘Into the Melting Pot’, The Economist, 8 February 2014.

  12‘This Rush to Downplay Race Ignores the Truth of Inter-Racial Adoption’, theguardian.com, 2 November 2010.

  13‘Michael Gove Speech on Adoption In Full’, politics.co.uk, 23 February 2012.

  4: FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET

  1‘Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, Daily Telegraph, 6 November 2007.

  2I repeatedly contacted Mr Farage to ask him to expand on his thoughts on this topic, but one of his aides told me that he wasn’t interested in speaking to me.

  3‘Farage “Felt Awkward” on Train’, Evening Standard, 28 February 2014.

  4‘BRIEFING: The EU Immigration System is Immoral and Unfair’, voteleavetakecontrol.org, no date listed, http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/briefing_immigration.html

  5‘Passport Checks Considered for Pregnant NHS Patients’, bbc.co.uk, 11 October 2016.

  6‘EU Referendum: Vote Leave Focuses on Immigration’, bbc.co.uk, 25 May 2016.

  7‘Immigration is Now the Top Issue for Voters in the EU Referendum’, Ipsos MORI Political Monitor, ipsos-mori.com, June 2016.

  8‘Nick Griffin Posts Address of B&B Case Gay Couple Online’, theguardian.com, 19 October 2012.

  9‘Rescue Boats? I’d Use Gunships to Stop Migrants’, Sun, 17 April 2015.

  10Hermione Granger: A Thesis, youtube.com/rosianna, 22 December 2015.

  11Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman is a dystopian young-adult fiction book in which a different course of history leads to Africa having a powerful advantage over Europe.

  5: THE FEMINISM QUESTION

  1Caroline Criado-Perez, Laura Bates, Allegra McEvedy’s perfect hangover food, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, first aired 31 December 2013.

  2‘Ex-Tory MP Attacks Black Feminist on Twitter’, voice-online.co.uk, 6 January 2014.

  3‘Ain’t I a Woman?’, Anti-Slavery Standard, 2 May 1863, reproduced at http://www.sojournertruth.com/p/aint-i-woman.html

  4‘Intersectionality is an Icepick’, sarahditum.com, 18 October 2012.

  5‘In Defence of Caitlin Moran and Populist Feminism’, New Statesman, 22 October 2012.

  6‘There’s No Point in Online Feminism if It’s an Exclusive, Mean Girls Club’, New Statesman, 21 March 2013.

  7‘The Problem With Privilege-Checking’, New Statesman, 17 December 2012.

  8‘A Lexicon of Social Justice’, Breitbart London, 24 March 2015.

  9‘An A-to-Z Guide to the New PC’, Spectator, 7 February 2015.

  10‘Check My Privilege? I Have, Thanks. You’re Still Wrong’, Spectator, 8 June 2013.

  11‘RIP This Britain: With Academic Objectivity, Oxford Professor and Population Expert David Coleman Says White Britons Could Be in the Minority by the 2060s – Or Sooner’, dailymail.co.uk, 28 May 2016.

  12BBC Radio 4, Today, 18 January 2016.

  13Crime Statistics, Focus on Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2012/13 Release, Chapter 2 – Homicide, Office for National Statistics, 13 February 2014, page 11.

  14An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales, Ministry of Justice, Home Office & the Office for National Statistics – Statistics bulletin, 10 January 2013, page 6.

  15‘Jack Straw Criticised for “Easy Meat” Comments on Abuse’, bbc.co.uk, 8 January 2011.

  16‘Naomi Campbell: Fashion Industry “Guilty of Racist Acts”’, Channel 4 News, 16 September 2013.

  6: RACE AND CLASS

  1‘Identity, Awareness and Political Attitudes: Why Are We Still Working Class?’, British Social Attitudes 33, Social Class, NatCen Social Research, 2016, page 2.

  2‘A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment’, Sociology, 2 April 2013.

  3‘Poverty Among Ethnic Groups: How and Why Does It Differ?’, Guy Palmer and Peter Kenway, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007, page 5.

  4‘2011 Census analysis: Ethnicity and the Labour Market, England and Wales’, Office for National Statistics, 13 November 2014.

  5‘London’s Demography, Gentrification Blues’, The Economist, 9 August 2013.

  6Local Ethnic Inequalities: Ethnic Differences in Education, Employment, Health and Housing in Districts of England and Wales, 2001−2011, University of Manchester in association with the Runnymede Trust, page 10.

  7‘Liz Kendall “Will Back White Working-Class Young”’, theguardian.com, 29 May 2015.

  8‘“BBC Plan to Promote Ethnic Minorities is Racist”, says MP’, telegraph.co.uk, 15 July 2014.

  9‘Right to Buy Sales: January to March 2016, England’, Department for Communities and Local Government, Housing Statistical Release, 30 June 2016.

  10‘10 Things We Should Know About Attitudes to Immigration in the UK’, Bobby Duffy & Tom Frere-Smith, Ipsos MORI, Perceptions and Reality, January 2014.

  11‘Sharper Elbows: The Well-Off are Grabbing an Ever-Larger Share of Spending’, The Economist, 14 November 2015.

  12‘Black Workers With Degrees Earn a Quarter Less Than White Counterparts, Finds TUC’, tuc.org.uk, 1 February 2016.

  13Private Eye, 22 January 2016.

  7: THERE’S NO JUSTICE, THERE’S JUST US

  1‘No Women in Top Jobs? Welcome to the Hypocrisy of the Jeremy Corbyn Era’, Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2015.

  2‘Millions Are Sharing Attack Stories That Aren’t About Paris’, BBC Trending, 16 November 2015.

  AFTERMATH

  1‘Who are the nationalist Finns Party?’, Jan Sundberg, bbc.co.uk, 11 May 2015, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32627013

  2‘Expel Hungary from EU for hostility to refugees, says Luxembourg, Matthew Weaver and Patrick Kingsley’, theguardian.com, 13 September 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/13/expel-hungary-from-eu-for-hostility-to-refugees-says-luxembourg

  3‘Here Are All the Times Donald Trump Insulted Mexico’, Katie Reilly, time.com, 31 August 2016, http://time.com/4473972/donald-trump-mexico-meeting-insult/

  4‘Farage says UK can “do business” with Trump after becoming first British politician to meet President-
elect, Lizzie Dearden’, independent.co.uk, 12 November 2016, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-president-us-election-win-nigel-farage-visits-trump-tower-first-british-politician-new-a7413961.html

  5‘Marine Le Pen visits Trump Tower in New York, David Lawler and Ruth Sherlock’, telegraph.co.uk, 12 January 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/marine-le-pen-visits-trump-tower-new-york/

  6‘Former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman: “I find the idea that there was a posh cabal offensive”’, Decca Aitkenhead, theguardian.com, 10 November 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/10/former-vogue-editor-alexandra-shulman-find-idea-that-there-was-a-posh-cabal-offensive

  7‘Alexandra Shulman’s Guardian Interview Is a Case Study on White Privilege’, Nadra Nittle, racked.com, 12 November 2017, https://www.racked.com/2017/11/12/16641058/alexandra-shulman-guardian-interview-british-vogue-racism

  8https://www.instagram.com/p/BbExUv3nwqi/?taken-by=jo_swinson

  9‘British Far-Right Group Exults Over Attention From Trump, Dan Bilefsky and Stephen Castle’, nytimes.com, 29 November 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/world/europe/britain-first-trump.html

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Adams, Carol J., The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, New York: Continuum, 1990

  Allen, Theodore W., The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control, London: Verso, 1994

  Bourne, Stephen, Dr Harold Moody, London: London Borough of Southwark, Southwark Local History Library, 2008

  Mother Country: Britain’s Black Community on the Home Front 1938–45, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2010

  Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, Stanford Law Review Vol. 43, No. 6 (July, 1991), pages 1241–99, Stanford, California: Stanford Review, 1991

  Das, Santanu, The Indian Sepoy in the First World War, London: British Library, https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/the-indian-sepoy-in-the-first-world-war

  de Beauvoir, Simone, The Second Sex, New York: Knopf, 1953

  Fanon, Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks, New York: Grove Press, 1967

  Hall, Stuart; Critcher, Chas; Jefferson, Tony, Clarke, John; Roberts, Brian; Policing the Crisis, Mugging, the State and Law and Order, London: Macmillan, 1978

  hooks, bell, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, London: Pluto Press, 1987

  Lorde, Audre, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Trumansburg, New York: Crossing Press, 1984

  Spelman, Elizabeth V., Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought, Boston: Beacon Press, 1990

  Vaughan, David A., Negro Victory: The Life Story of Dr Harold Moody, London: Independent Press Ltd, 1950

  Wallace, Michele, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, New York: Dial Press, 1979.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Thank you to Rupert for taking a chance on me, and to Alexa von Hirschberg and Angelique Tran Van Sang for turning me into a better writer. To everyone at Bloomsbury who believed in this book, I hope I’ve done you proud.

  To Jessica and Jenny, who both bared your souls to me for the purposes of this book, I can’t thank you enough for being so honest with me.

  Thank you to John Fernandes and others who were indispensably helpful with my research.

  Thank you to those who pointed me in the right direction for research along the way: Kirsty, Aisling and Yasmin.

  CC, your support has made this happen. You’re my backbone.

  INDEX

  Abbott, Diane, here, here

  accessibility, here

  Adewunmi, Bim, here

  adoption, here

  Alderson, Chief Constable John, here

  Ali, Muhammad, here

  Allen, Lily, here

  Allen, Theodore W., here

  ‘anchor baby’, here

  ‘angry black women’, here

  Anti-Slavery Society, here

  Austen, Jane, here

  Ayling, Chief Constable Bob, here

  Baig, Akhtar Ali, here

  Bailey, Guy, here

  Bates, Laura, here

  Baxter, Holly, here

  Beale, Frances, here

  Beauvoir, Simone de, here

  Bellos, Linda, here

  Bennett, David, here

  Bindel, Julie, here

  Black History Month, here

  ‘black identity’, here

  Blair, Tony, here

  Blakelock, PC Keith, here

  Board, PC Dick, here

  Boateng, Paul, here

  Booth, Hartley, here

  Boyega, John, here

  Breitbart London, here

  Bristol Omnibus Company, here

  Britain First, here, here

  British National Party, here, here, here

  British Nationality Act, here, here

  British Union of Fascists, here

  British West Indies Regiment (BWIR), here

  Brixton, here, here, here, here, here

  Brooks, Duwayne, here

  Brooks, Joseph, here

  Brooks (slave ship), here

  Brown, Prince, here

  Butler, Rab, here

  Cable, Vince, here

  Camden Committee for Community Relations, here

  Cameron, David, here, here

  Campbell, Naomi, here

  Cardiff, here

  Christian, Mark, here

  Clarkson, Thomas, here

  Cobboth, N., here

  Coleman, Professor David, here, here

  Cologne, here

  colour-blindness, here, here, here

  Commonwealth Immigrants Act, here

  community policing, here

  company boardrooms, here

  Condon, Sir Paul, here

  Constantine, Sir Learie, here

  Corbyn, Jeremy, here

  Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy, here

  Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard von, here

  Crenshaw, Dr Kimberlé, here, here, here, here

  Criado-Perez, Caroline, here

  Curle, Keith, here

  Davenport, Neil, here

  Davies, Philip, here

  Davis, Angela, here

  Dickens, Charles, here

  Dickson, Leo, here

  disability, here, here

  Ditum, Sarah, here

  DNA profiles, here

  Dobbs, Dame Linda, here

  Dobson, Gary, here, here

  drugs, here

  Du Bois, W. E. B., here

  Duff Grant, L. G., here

  Dumezweni, Noma, here

  Dunham, Lena, here

  Dunt, Ian, here

  Dyke, Greg, here

  education, here, here

  Elba, Idris, here

  Elford, William, here

  emasculation, here

  emergent service workers, here

  employment prospects, here

  English Defence League, here, here

  EU referendum, here, here, here

  eugenics, here

  Evans, Audley, here

  Fahy, Sir Peter, here

  Farage, Nigel, here

  Fenner Brockway, Archibald, here

  Fernandes, John, here, here

  films, here, here

  First World War, here

  Fleming, Rachel M., here

  Fletcher, Muriel, here

  football, here

  freedom of speech, here

  Garissa University, here

  gender quotas, here

  Girls, here

  Gove, Michael, here

  Grant, Bernie, here

  Great British Class Survey, here

  Greer, Germaine, here

  Griffin, Nick, here, here, here, here

  Griffiths, Peter, here

  Groce, Cherry, here, here

  Hackett, Roy, here

  Hall, Tony, here

  Halse Rojas, Rosianna, here
/>   Handsworth, here, here

  Harker, Joseph, here

  Harry Potter, here

  Hendon Police College, here

  Henry, Owen, here

  Hogan-Howe, Sir Bernard, here

  homophobia, here, here

  hooks, bell, here, here

  Hopkins, Katie, here

  Horowitz, Anthony, here

  housing, here

  Howe, Darcus, here

  Howe, Sarah, here

  identity politics, here, here, here

  immigration, here, here, here, here, here

  intersectionality, here, here, here

  Jarrett, Cynthia, here

  Jarrett, Floyd, here

  judiciary, here

  Kendall, Liz, here

  Keynes, John Maynard, here

  Keys, The, here

  King, Martin Luther, Jr, here, here, here, here, here

  Kinnock, Neil, here

  Kitty’s Amelia (slave ship), here

  Krase, Jennifer, here

  Labour Party

  Black Sections, here

  and immigration controls, here

  Lawrence, Stephen, here, here, here

  League of Coloured Peoples, here

  Lentin, Alana, here

  Letwin, Oliver, here

  Leveson, Lord Justice, here

  Liverpool, here, here, here, here, here

  London riots (2011), here

  Lorde, Audre, here, here, here

  Macpherson, Sir William, here

  Manchester Royal Infirmary, here

  mass media, here

  Members of Parliament, here

  Memorial Gates Trust, here

  Mensch, Louise, here, here

  mental health, here

  Midlane, Tom, here

  mixed-race relationships and children, here, here, here

  Moody, Dr Harold, here

  Mosley, Oswald, here

  Mugabe, Sally, here

  mugging, here, here

  multiculturalism, here, here, here

  ‘state multiculturalism’, here

  Murdoch, Rupert, here

  Muslim women, here

  National Football League (US), here

  National Front, here, here, here

  Nethercott, Ron, here

  New Statesman, here, here

  Newham Monitoring Project, here, here

  Newport, here

  Norris, David, here, here

  Notting Hill, here

  Nottingham, here, here

  Obama, Barack, here

  Okolosie, Lola, here

  Operation Swamp, here

 

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