Preface

Alana Lentin

doi:10.4324/9781003300113

Preface

Alana Lentin

School of Arts

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Abstract

Stuart Hall, addressing the nature of the homegrown British racism that developed in three phases from the late 1940s to the late 1960s, places Powellism at the summit. Powellism stands for “the formation of an ‘official’ racist policy at the heart of British political culture” that solidifies after Enoch Powell’s infamous pronouncements on the Black “Enemy Within” of 1968 and 1969 (ibid. 150). Olivier Esteves’ meticulous cataloguing and analysis of 10,000 out of the over 100,000 letters written to the Conservative MP from Wolverhampton give us a fascinating insight into the manufacture
of (racist) consent that Powell’s speeches had a significant hand in.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash': Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)
Editors	Olivier Esteves
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	xi-xii
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003300113
ISBN (Print)	9781032291178
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003300113
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Name	Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

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