Thread by @robfordmancs

Here's something @ProfSobolewska and I wrote over a year ago on the potential for British culture wars:
…ary-wiley-com.manchester.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.11…

@ProfSobolewska "We contend that Britain is now—like the US—a racially divided society. White voters, like ethnic minority voters, have an ethnic identity which can be politically mobilised, and hold complex and politically consequential racial attitudes driven by these identity attachments."

@ProfSobolewska "those who are ‘ideologically colour‐blind’ do not express explicitly negative views of minorities...They instead reject the argument that racial discrimination exists as a significant social problem which shapes lives unequally...."

@ProfSobolewska "People who reject the notion of discrimination as a structural disadvantage in this way tend also to reject targeted policies designed to offer redress for racial disadvantage"

@ProfSobolewska "While immigration is an issue where Brexit opens the door to new policy compromises, the issue of diversity is more complex and goes closer to the heart of the value divide between the identity conservative right and the identity liberal left."

@ProfSobolewska Something else we did more recently on the same theme:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@ProfSobolewska "There is potential for new conflicts to arise between those who think the work of building racial equality is largely finished, and those who believe it is barely begun."