Abstract
Following attacks on multiculturalism and its replacement with a de-racialized concept of community cohesion, the dimension of ‘race’ is steadily disappearing from public policy. The process was started during New Labour’s last term of office but has accelerated since the election of the Coalition government. Equality is now officially a ‘dirty word’, equality impact assessments a bureaucratic burden, and the public sector equality duty an obstacle to rapid policy change at local level. National and local statutory and voluntary organizations concerned with racial equality are being dismantled or downsized and a series of political pronouncements gives nods and winks to those wishing to ignore the issue of racial disadvantage. Meanwhile, minorities are hit hardest by public expenditure cuts, are disproportionately criminalized in the criminal justice system, and are increasingly affected by racism and ‘race’ hate crime.
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