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DESCRIBE AND DISCUSS THE EXTENT OF RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN BRITAIN. The term 'racism' cannot be defined in one way, but the simplest way defining it is, as "the determination of actions, attitudes or policies by beliefs about racial characteristics" (Abercrombie, N 2004: 316). The sociology of race in Britain began taking shape in the 1950s and 1960s, where scholars such as John Rex carried out studies of 'race relations.' They concentrated on the interaction between minority and majority communities in employment, housing and other social contexts. However, after the development of some theoretical debates since the 1980s, it was found that these early studies lacked clear theoretical perspectives on "the absence of a wider socio-political perspective on the interplay between race relations and other kinds of social relations" (Solomos, J 2003: 18). Miles (1989) in Solomos (2003) discusses the way in which the concepts of racism and racial...

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