Five public talks on race relations. What are the causes of racial friction? Why are different cultural values felt as a threat? How far does the recurrent political debate about immigration distract attention from what needs to be done if Britain is to function successfully as a multi-racial society?
Each evening this week BBC2 presents extracts from a series of talks which offer the sort of informed analysis needed in tackling such questions.
1: Race and the Inner City
Professor John Rex , Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
The problem of racial friction is often defined as a problem of the inner city. But is it? PROFESSOR REX, who has researched areas of Birmingham since 1962, suggests that while inner-city conflicts serve to worsen race relations, racial discrimination itself helps to produce inner-city problems.
Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
(Tomorrow's talk is at 11.0 pm)
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