ABSTRACT
This chapter describes 'deconstruction' of racial harassment and racial terror in white appropriations of the British city. 'White governmentality' relies on technologies of the body which aim to control and discipline conduct through populist racist ascriptions and moral panics which inform the limitations placed on the 'racial others' spatial mobility, economic status, political participation and social visibility. In the British city the practice, incidence and impact of racial harassment is lived under the virtual aegis of a 'white governmentality' which pervades the national configuration of social and political life. To challenge the cultural-urban difference of immigrant and indigenous black/Asian settlements was to snipe across a racialized border. The chapter describes that how nationalism provides a split surface of inscription for the discourse of racial harassment to re-write the Britishness of the city. D. Smith's analysis suggests that segregationism overlaps and interacts with racism and nationalism.
