Chapter 1. “There Is Nothing Nice to See Here, Sir. You Go to Central London”: The Colonial-Racial Zone of East London

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Prelude. The Parable of “Paki Ali” ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. “There Is Nothing Nice to See Here, Sir. You Go to Central London”: The Colonial-Racial Zone of East London 12
6. Chapter 2. “They Do Not Look Like People Who Would Do This”: Amina’s Struggles Against Everyday Political Whiteness 38
7. Chapter 3. “Would They Do This to Tony Blair’s Daughter?” Gillian’s Struggle Against Intersectional Racial Violence 66
8. Chapter 4. “We Are Terrified of You!” British Muslim Women and Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism 96
9. Chapter 5. “The War on Terror Has Become a War on Us”: The Forest Gate Antiterror Raid and Counterterror Citizenship 126
10. Chapter 6. “If Political Blackness Is So Damn Difficult, Why Do You Keep It?” Cilius’s Passage to Post–War on Terror Political Blackness 158
11. Conclusion. Endings and Beginnings 184
12. Notes 203
13. References 213
14. Index 233
15. Acknowledgments 249