New Right, New Racism : Race and Reaction in the United States and Britain

New Right, New Racism is a comparative analysis of the role of racialized symbols in the right turn of US and British politics in the late 1970s through to today. The author argues that the symbol of race has been central to the New Right's project to redefine the cultural codes and broader social imaginary upon which the consensus politics of the post-war years was built. In the process of mobilizing race as an ideological articulator of the exit from consensus politics, the New Right has promoted a new form of racism qualitatively distinct from more traditional forms. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: The New Right — Storm-Troopers in the Name of Liberty....Pages 1-24 Race and the Right Turn: The Symbolic Conflict Approach....Pages 25-48 The New Right Racial Backlash: A New Racism....Pages 49-73 The New Right in the United States: Color-Blind Discourse and the Politics of Reverse Racism....Pages 74-141 The British New Right: A Discourse of Culture, Nation, and Race....Pages 142-190 The New Racism and the Racial State....Pages 191-262 Conclusion: Challenging the New Racism; Combating the New Right....Pages 263-273 Back Matter....Pages 274-351