The anti-racist term ‘black’ excluded Asians and prompted new identities

Evidence

Robert Miles supports this by citing Paul Gilroy’s There ain’t no black in the Union Jack as a perfect example, where Asians were granted merely a ‘walk-on’ part. Modood also suggested that the term ‘black’ overlooked and obscured Asian needs despite them becoming an ever-growing population, adding that ‘black’ was also far too politicised that for Asians was little more than a ‘political colour’ that appealed only to a very limited aspect of their individual or community being. The final two arguments were that ‘black’ was non-conducive to ethnic pride and that there was a coerciveness by anti-racist advocates where the consent of Asians and others who were not culturally black became taken for granted and so negated their status and distinctive identity. resultantly, Modood put forward the argument that new identities were needed that broke the hegemonic grip of ‘political blackness’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British anti-racist unity under black identity dissolved as politics of recognition grew; Black identity as political category only emerged after the late 1960s; Muslim migrants were initially subsumed under the hegemonic ‘Asian’ label — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 50 (+5 more)

Related

• Modood rejected the ‘black’ label as coercive over Asians (similarity 0.91)
• Black identity as political category only emerged after the late 1960s (similarity 0.91)
• British anti-racist unity under black identity dissolved as politics of recognition grew (similarity 0.89)
• Race Relations Act 1976 drove the ‘black’ consensus that marginalized Asians (similarity 0.87)
• Bengali immigrants navigated citizenship by adopting Black identity after Thind (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim migrants were initially subsumed under the hegemonic ‘Asian’ label (similarity 0.81)
• The category ‘black’ historically privileged Afro-Caribbean experience and lost descriptive force for Asians. (similarity 0.81)
• The term black once united nonwhite Britons across creed and culture (similarity 0.80)
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself (similarity 0.78)
• British anti-racism discourse centred on colour until the early 1990s (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modood rejected the ‘black’ label as coercive over Asians #corroborates (0.90) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57
• Race Relations Act 1976 drove the ‘black’ consensus that marginalized Asians #corroborates (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 55
• British anti-racism discourse centred on colour until the early 1990s #expands (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 730
• Black women named their race in group titles because exclusion forced it #corroborates (0.72) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 470