ABSTRACT
What this research brings out in the first place is the determining role of racism in shaping the lives of the people concerned: it is recurrent, pervasive, pernicious and often deleterious. Three areas are sharply marked by it according to the young people’s experience; school, the police and judiciary, and the media. These seem to combine for an augmentation of discriminatory practices in employment. But this population also experiences racial prejudice in all aspects of everyday interaction with majority society. They formulate their group identification within this constraint to which is added the class structure to which they belong and the social deprivation they suffer.
