Reading:

Copsey, N. et al (2013) ‘Anti-Muslim Hate Crime and the Far Right' Centre for Fascist, Anti-Facist and Post-Facist Studies: Teesside University

Frost, D. (2007) ‘The ‘enemy within'? Asylum, racial violence and ‘race hate' in Britain today' 21st Century Society Vol. 2, No. 3, 227-248, November

Mulhall, J., Lowles, N. (2015) ‘The Counter=Jihad Movement: Anti-Muslim hatred from the margins to the mainstream' Hope not hate

Questions

1. What different forms of hate crime can we identify?

2. How might we describe ‘biological racism' and ‘culturalist racism' and how does this impact on different groups in terms of ‘race' hate?

3. To what extent can whiteness be racialized and does this feed into ‘race' hate?

4. What theoretical explanations have been offered for hate crime more generally?

5. What's the relationship between institutions like the media and the grass roots?

6. What is the relationship between mainstream institutions, marginal groups and the general population in terms of hate crime?