Britishness carries largely unspoken racial connotations and is usually imagined as white

Evidence

In a newspaper article at the time, when Stuart was invited to respond to the critics of the Parekh report, he nonetheless stuck firmly to his guns, insisting that the report was quite right to argue that historically the idea of Britishness had carried “largely unspoken racial connotations” insofar as—in the common understanding—Britain was then, and is still, usually imagined as white. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 156

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Converges with the imagined-community concept of the nation and directly underpins arguments that Islamophobia targets Muslims as un-British.

Related

• Britishness has always been racialized as whiteness though long silenced publicly. (similarity 0.83)
• Britishness functioned as an unmarked norm against which ethnicity was measured (similarity 0.82)