The Commission for Racial Equality
Subtitle: British bureaucracy and the multiethnic society
By: Ray Honeyford.
Series: Social policy and social theory series
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Great Britain. Commission for Racial Equality.; Minorities -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Equality -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Race relations.; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations.
Description: In the United Kingdom, as in the United States, race relations are surrounded with taboos defined by the politically correct concepts of what Ray Honeyford calls the race relations lobby. This lobby, championed by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has a vested interest in depicting the United Kingdom as a society rotten with endemic racism, and its ethnic minorities as victims doomed to failure.

An outgrowth of the Race Relations Act of 1976, the Commission was founded in response to worthy concerns about race and patterned after its American prototype, the Congress of Racial Equality. Its constant demands for increased powers have only increased with the coming into power of the New Labour Party. That makes Ray Honeyford's critique all the more urgent. Honeyford exposes the policies and practices of the Commission to public view, encouraging informed debate about its need to exist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307) and index.