British prejudice shifted from biological racism to cultural discrimination against Muslims.

Evidence

The backlash against multiculturalism articulated by politicians in various parts of the world over the past few years has in its sights the supposed recalcitrance of Muslims. In Britain, there has been a shift from, for example, a quite virulently racist mainstream discourse in the 1970s and 1980s, based on biological racism, about Afro-Caribbean youth as agents of crime and moral corruption to a cultural discrimination against Muslims based on their perceived “alien” practices. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 64

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the cultural-racism turn Paul Gilroy documents in ‘There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’ — and frames Home Boy’s Muslim-British protagonist.
• SHARE: A crisp summary of Britain’s post-1980s racism shift, worth sending to anyone working on immigration discourse.