![]() ![]() In 1995 he gained a DPhil from that university. His argument was that the concept of "racism", created in the 1930s to describe biological racism, should be extended to take into account prejudices against people on the basis of cultural difference. Studying growing hostility to migrants in Britain, he coined the idea of "new racism"-later known as cultural racism-and promoted this through his 1981 book The New Racism. Identifying as a committed socialist and anti-racist, during the 1970s, Barker focused his research on racism, in particular its place in British children's comics. Barker received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 1967, after which he lectured in cultural studies at Bristol Polytechnic, later renamed the University of the West of England, from 1969 to 1998. ![]()
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