Muddled leaders and the future of the British national identity

Political Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-30

  Alibhai Brown, Yasmin ^a  

^a Institute for Public Policy Research   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0033632726     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00276     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. 1 See Tim Williams, The Patriot Game, Tynant Books, 1997.
2. 2 Ron Davies, Devolution, Gregynog Papers, vol. 2, no. 2.
3. 3 See the literature of the Campaign for an English Parliament, headed by Steve Richards from Kings Lynn in Norfolk.
4. 4 Stuart Hall, 'Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities', in Anthony King, ed., Culture, Globalisation and the World System, London, Macmillan, 1991; Philip Dodd, The Battle over Britain, London, Demos, 1995; Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, Verso, 1983; Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, Cambridge, Mass., Yale University Press, 1992.
5. 4 Stuart Hall, 'Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities', in Anthony King, ed., Culture, Globalisation and the World System, London, Macmillan, 1991; Philip Dodd, The Battle over Britain, London, Demos, 1995; Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, Verso, 1983; Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, Cambridge, Mass., Yale University Press, 1992.
6. 4 Stuart Hall, 'Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities', in Anthony King, ed., Culture, Globalisation and the World System, London, Macmillan, 1991; Philip Dodd, The Battle over Britain, London, Demos, 1995; Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, Verso, 1983; Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, Cambridge, Mass., Yale University Press, 1992.
7. 4 Stuart Hall, 'Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities', in Anthony King, ed., Culture, Globalisation and the World System, London, Macmillan, 1991; Philip Dodd, The Battle over Britain, London, Demos, 1995; Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, Verso, 1983; Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, Cambridge, Mass., Yale University Press, 1992.
8. 5 Speech in Bruges, 1991, quoted in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, 'Community Whitewash', Guardian, 28 August 1992.
9. 6 See the qualitiative survey of attitudes towards diversity commissioned by the IPPR for my book, True Colours (London, IPPR, 1999). Young people come out as the most 'naturally' anti-racist and cosmopolitan.
10. 7 Bhiku Parekh, 'National Identity and the Ontological Regeneration of Britain', in A. Gilbert and P. Gregory, eds, Culture, Markets, and Nation, Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, p. 93.
11. 8 In Britain: A Plural Society, seminar report, London, Commission for Racial Equality, 1990, p. 29.
12. 9 Simon Heffer's biography of Powell, Like the Roman (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999), was, as he admitted to me on Start the Week, written without any black Britons being interviewed. Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain, London, Quartet, 1999.
13. 9 Simon Heffer's biography of Powell, Like the Roman (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999), was, as he admitted to me on Start the Week, written without any black Britons being interviewed. Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain, London, Quartet, 1999.
14. 10 Dodd, The Battle over Britain, p. 8.
15. 11 Guardian, 12 November 1998.
16. 12 See my True Colours, ch. 4.
17. 13 Dodd, The Battle over Britain, p. 13.
18. 14 For a detailed account of this, see One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future. The President's Initiative on Race, Washington DC, Race Advisory Board to the President, October 1998.