Rural Racism

This text examines notions of ethnic identity, 'otherness' and racist victimisation that have tended to be marginalized from traditional rural discourse.

Rural issues are currently attracting unprecedented levels of interest, with the debates surrounding the future of 'traditional' rural customs and practice becoming a significant political concern. However, the problem of racism in rural areas has been largely overlooked by academics, practitioners and researchers who have sought almost exclusively to develop an understanding of racism in urban contexts. This book aims to address this oversight by examining notions of ethnic identity, 'otherness' and racist victimisation that have tended to be marginalised from traditional rural discourse.

Foreword
Introduction
Part 1 Rurality and racist victimisation in context
1 Conceptualising Rurality, by P Cloke
2 Hate crime and racist victimisation, by P Iganski and J Levin
Part 2 Assessing the problem
3 John O'Groats to Land's End: racial equality in rural Britain, by P de Lima
4 Another country? Racism, isolation and victimisation in rural Suffolk, by N
Chakraborti and J Garland
5 'It's not bad, it happens all the time': learning to live with rural racism, by D Malcolm
6 Living in a foreign land: ethnic minorities and rural racism in Wales, by V Robinson and H Gardner
Part 3 Tackling the problem 7 Developing strategies to support victims of racial harassment in a rural setting, by S Jalota
8 Challenging rural racism through education, by Kishor Patel
9 Working with perpetrators of racist violence and harassment: putting theory into practice in the North of England, by Peter Francis, Sadie Parr and Robyn Thomas
10 Responding to Rural Racism: delivering local services, by Richard Pugh
Index