Anti-discrimination legislation.

... Thank you for coming to listen to this presentation. The subject I am going to be talking about is the Race Relations Policies; I will also be talking about the origins of anti-discrimination legislation, the genesis of race relations policies and the 1976 Race Relations Act. The three major Race Relations Acts passed since 1965 have been highly controversial and have aroused the opposition of those who see them as an attempt to give favourable treatment to blacks over whites in the search for jobs, homes and other goods. This kind of opposition has boiled over into open calls for the dismantling of the major institutions of what is sometimes called the race relations industry. Now I am briefly going to talk about the origins of anti-discrimination legislation From the 1950's the question of what to do to counter racial discrimination emerged as a major dilemma in debates about immigration and race

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