Images of black criminality anchored the emerging authoritarian populism of British politics

Evidence

Then, from the early 1970s, in the initial iterations of what became the now canonical Policing the Crisis, questions of race (and, specifically, images of black criminality) were central to his analysis of the emerging forms of authoritarian populism that came to dominate British politics over the subsequent decades. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 32

Categorization

• XREF: Direct bridge to Islamophobia field: Policing the Crisis’s model of race-panic feeding authoritarian populism is the template for analyses of Islamophobic moral panic and the penal state turn.