Institutional housing practices and racism: The brook estate, Eltham

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 198-201

  Jacobs, Keith ^a  

^a NONE

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ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HOUSING; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOUSING; LONDON; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC POLICY; RACE RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 55949128070     PISSN: 13633554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/1999.48.198     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Jennifer Davis, 'From "Rookeries" to "Communities": Race, Poverty and Policing in London, 1850-1985', History Workshop Journal 27, spring 1989, pp. 67-85.
2. S. Jacobs, 'Race, empire and the welfare state: council housing and racism', Critical Social Policy 13, 1985, pp. 7-28.
3. A. Richmond, The Colour Problem, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1955.
4. S. Smith, The Politics of Race and Residence, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989.
5. P. Malpass and A. Murie, Housing Policy and Practice (3rd edn), Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1990, p. 64.
6. W. Daniel, Racial Discrimination in England, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1968.
7. Smith, Politics of Race and Residence, p. 54.
8. P. Sarre, D. Phillips and R. Skellington, Ethnic Minority Housing: Explanations and Policies, Avebury, Aldershot, 1989, p. 9.
9. Sarre and others, Ethnic Minority Housing, p. 184.
10. J. Cullingworth, Council Housing: Purposes, Procedures and Priorities, Report of the Central Housing Advisory Committee, HMSO, London, 1969.
11. J. Henderson and V. Karn, Race, Class and State Housing: Inequality and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain, Gower, Aldershot.
12. B. Campbell, Goliath: Britain's Dangerous Places, Methuen, London, 1993.
13. For Eltham history see E. Jefferson, The Woolwich Story, Woolwich District and Antiquarian Society, 1970;
14. also The Eltham Society, Looking into Eltham, 1980.
15. R. Hewitt, Routes of Racism: The Social Basis of Racist Action, Trentham Books, Stoke on Trent, 1996, p. 7.
16. For a useful summary of race issues in Eltham see B. Catheart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence, Viking, Harmondsworth, 1999, pp. 19-31.
17. 'Mixed reaction in community split by racism', The Times, 15 Feb. 1997, p. 5.
18. For a detailed study of this issue in an inner-London borough see Commission For Racial Equality, Race and Council Housing in London: Report of a Formal Investigation, CRE, London, 1984.
19. N. Ginsburg, 'Institutional racism and local authority housing', Critical Social Policy 24, 1988, pp. 4-19, p.12.