Race Relations Act 1976 drove the ‘black’ consensus that marginalized Asians

Evidence

Because of the emphasis upon colour, race and little else, so ‘Asians’ became politically overlooked and possibly even marginalised. As Modood has since written, it was the response to the enactment of the Race Relations Act 1976 (‘RRA76’) that created and indeed insisted upon the consensus around the term ‘black’, first within a very specialist lobby but then in the wider socio-political spaces. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 55

Categorization

• XREF: Causal account of how legislation shapes and suppresses identity categories — parallels the law-as-identity-constructor theme at loc. 60. — connects to: The anti-racist term ‘black’ excluded Asians and prompted new identities — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57; Modood rejected the ‘black’ label as coercive over Asians — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57; British anti-racist unity under black identity dissolved as politics of recognition grew (+2 more)

Related

• The anti-racist term ‘black’ excluded Asians and prompted new identities (similarity 0.87)
• Modood rejected the ‘black’ label as coercive over Asians (similarity 0.87)
• British anti-racist unity under black identity dissolved as politics of recognition grew (similarity 0.84)
• Black identity as political category only emerged after the late 1960s (similarity 0.82)
• British anti-racism’s black-white frame marginalized Asian mobilization and identity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• British antiracism’s black-white frame erased the West Indian-Asian divide and hindered Asian mobilization. #expands (0.90)
• The unifying 1970s category of black suppressed internal differences among nonwhite Britons. #corroborates (0.85)
• British anti-racist unity under black identity dissolved as politics of recognition grew #corroborates (0.80)