Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain

by Mohan Ambikaipaker

Book Overview

One evening in 1980, a group of white friends, drinking at the Duke of Edinburgh pub on East Ham High Street, made a monstrous five-pound wager. The first person to kill a "Paki" would win the bet. Ali Akhtar Baig, a young Pakistani student who lived in the east London borough of Newham, was their chosen victim. Baig's murder was but one incident in a wave of antiblack racial attacks that were commonplace during the crisis of race relations in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812250303
• ISBN13: 9780812250305
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"