'Rivers of Blood' fifty years on: Enoch Powell's rhetoric of blame and exclusion

Atkins, Judi (2018) 'Rivers of Blood' fifty years on: Enoch Powell's rhetoric of blame and exclusion. British Politics and Policy at LSE (13 Apr 2018). Website.

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It is five decades since Enoch Powell told a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham that soon "the black man will have the whip hand over the white man". Judi Atkins analyses the rhetoric of that speech and concludes that, although Powell's notorious prediction of a race war has not materialised, his rhetoric of division and blame still forms part of British public discourse.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2018 10:57
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 17:49
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89596

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