The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth Century Britain (1st edition.)

This book develops the concept of racialisation. It argues that a full understanding of racialized discourse must pay attention to both the particular local circumstances in which they appear, and well-established themes which have unfolded over time.

An important aspect of the study is the examination of other discourses with which racialized ideas have co-joined, reflecting the way in which notions of race are socially constructed.

The final part of the thesis returns to debates of the 1980s and argues that the racialisation of unrest in that decade was closely intertwined with conservative perspectives which sought to deny