Dr Jon Burnett Jon.Burnett@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Criminology
Racial violence and the Brexit state
Burnett, Jon
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Abstract
Research by the Institute of Race Relations into over one hundred incidents of racial violence reported in the mass media in the month after the EU referendum indicates that the ‘spike’ in such attacks has to be understood in terms of the racist climate created not just during the clearly nativist referendum debate, but also in the divisive policies and programmes of successive governments preceding it. The politicians and police chiefs, who have recently condemned the violence, analyse it in terms of already given media frameworks about ‘hate crime’: bigoted individuals are to blame; this is a law-and-order issue not a socially based problem – thus avoiding any responsibility for the creation of state racism. The research also reveals the central role of the police, at the expense of community groups’ or victims’ voices, when the media decides an attack is newsworthy.
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Burnett, J. (2017). Racial violence and the Brexit state. Race & class, 58(4), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816686283
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 1, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 4, 2017 |
Publication Date | Apr 18, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Apr 5, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | May 4, 2023 |
Journal | Race & Class |
Print ISSN | 0306-3968 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 58 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 85-97 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816686283 |
Keywords | Racial violence, Brexit |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4076149 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306396816686283 |
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Burnett, J. (2017). Racial violence and the Brexit state. Race & Class, 58(4), 85–97. © 2017 Institute of Race Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816686283
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