Inside the Black Box of ’White Backlash’: Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of ’White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ’Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20, 1968.

Olivier Esteves is a professor of British Studies at University of Lille. He works on ethnicity, race and Islamophobia in the UK, United States and France. Among other monographs, he has authored The ’Desegregation’ of English Schools: Bussing, Race and Urban Space (1960s-1980s) in 2018.