Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK: State of the Nation

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With accessible graphs and data illustrations, this is an up-to-date summary of the state of race and ethnic inequalities across a range of thematic areas (health, education, politics, attitudes, anti-discriminatory law etc.) in the UK. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK's foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal justice, housing and representation in the arts and media. It explores what progress has been made, identifies those areas where inequalities remain stubbornly resistant to change, and asks how our thinking around race and ethnicity has changed in an era of Islamophobia, Brexit and an increasingly diverse population.

Bridget Byrne is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK and Director of the ESRC research Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). Claire Alexander is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester UK and Deputy Director of the ESRC research Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). Omar Khan is Director of the Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading independent race equality think tank. James Nazroo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and Deputy Director of the ESRC research Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative research on Ageing. Will Shankley is a Research Associate at the ESRC research Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and has a PhD from the University of Manchester