ABSTRACT

John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related areas are brought together. Professor Rex discusses imperialistic social systems, and examines the position of black people at the colonial and metropolitan ends of thoses systems.

This book was first published in 1973.

part I|71 pages

Part I Race and the city

part II|64 pages

Part II Colonial migration to Britain 1945–70

part III|104 pages

Part III Theory and research on colonial migration

part IV|58 pages

Part IV Pluralism, colonial conflict and black revolution

chapter 19|14 pages

The plural society in sociological theory

chapter 21|15 pages

The plural society—the South African case

chapter 22|15 pages

The structure of ‘black revolutions'