Sociologists

• Patterson : racism disappearing as immigrants are being assimilated
• Marx : Irish people = sub-human, low pay/lowest strata
• Hall : w/c people encouraged to dislike migrants e.g. newspapers (black crime > serious crime)
• Cox : racism supports capitalism, people fight each other ignoring the real enemy —> fail to overcome capitalism
• Hall and Jefferson : ethnic minorities = scape goats
• Gabrielle and Ben-Tovim : race and class = different social problem, race is a useless concept / problem is class based
• Banton and Rex : complex interactions of different social events = racial inequality
• Rex and Tomlinson : BME people cannot escape their position
• Hooks : beliefs used to dominate certain groups throughout history
• Malik : assimilation model if rate relation = dangerous
• Alvarado : media portrays race as different:

  1. dangerous
  2. exoticism
  3. humorous
  4. victimisation
• Murray : African Caribbean = problem, significantly part of the underclass + high rates if single parent which leads to crime
• Saunders : migrants fail to adapt to British culture. Developed cultural activities = poverty, do not attempt to improve position