ABSTRACT
In recent years there has been an explosion of academic writing about ‘policy’. This includes a huge range of material, from narrow organizational/managerialist studies through to international comparisons of policy developments. As Michael Apple reminds us, however, policy is fundamentally a political issue: it is one of the means by which power operates. This chapter maps the main contours of recent British social and educational policy in relation to race: the aim being to understand how exclusions and oppressions have been made, remade and legitimized.
