Representations of racial difference and 'white anxiety' in the USA and UK : the 1992 US and 1997 UK election campaigns

This thesis examines the construction of White anxiety through an analysis of discursive strategies used to marshal racialised fears and resentments within the context of specific political cultures. Here, White anxiety is defined as the imagined threats and displacements felt in response to the pre...

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Main Author: Vautier, Elaine
Published: University of East London 2005
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487939