ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the canon of institutional racism and its subsequent impact on British society during the 1990s. The context for this treatise is permeated by three events that would leave an indelible imprint on British societal history: the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, the induction of New Labour and its commitment to addressing racism within British society in 1997, and findings from the Macpherson Inquiry in 1999. This chapter reflects in particular on the extent to which institutional racism permeated every facet of British society and the painstaking heroism of the Lawrence family in disrupting and detangling the cyclical web of racism that was sustained by the state and maintained through its major institutions.
