The stigma of being Black in Britain

ABSTRACT

Despite 50 years of anti-racial discrimination law in the UK, the political economy of the word ‘black’ remains negative. Its stigmatisation can be attributed to hyperinvisibility and hyperinvisitibility of the black population in Britain as well as the displacement of identity politics by the politics of identity.

KEYWORDS:

• Discrimination
• stigma
• black
• identity
• political economy
• employment

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Notes

1. PRO File T227/2535, Race Relations Legislation: visit to the United States and Canada, 27^th June to 8 July 1967, dated 13 July 1967. Cited in (Solanke 2010).