ABSTRACT
Each of the contributors to this volume has had a specific contribution to make. Between them, they have analysed, commented upon and further developed the main themes which have exercised the minds and engaged the efforts of all those who, like myself, have been and remain personally or professionally concerned with race relations in the United Kingdom. I am most grateful for their work and to Bhikhu Parekh, Peter Sanders and Tessa Blackstone for editing the whole work and providing chapters of their own; and I am particularly honoured to be invited to contribute a final chapter. Attempting to summarise what has already been so clearly set out would be unhelpful.
