ABSTRACT
The two ideologies of ‘the heritage of slavery’ on the one hand and disadvantage on the other have dominated social policy thinking. Policies and programmes of various Government Ministries carried on the same tradition. The impetus towards a policy of equal opportunity came both from fear of recurrence of the riots and from the new power represented by concentrated ethnic minority voting in inner city Wards. In the United States such courses have been widely used in a context of a national Equal Opportunity policy concerned with integrating Black Americans fully into their society. In Britain they are bound to have a more ambiguous role. In London White Parents groups have been formed to fight against Multicultural Policy in schools and Equal Opportunity policies, which are seen as part of a dangerous package of political policies being pursued by the Greater London Council.
