The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by Pluto Press in 1998 (ISBN 0745313035)

Contents

Introduction

1. The silent race war theme
2. A dramatic shift in racial thinking
3. The pressures towards the new consensus
4. The crisis of the West
5. Bad faith and the fear of revenge
6. The challenge from the colonies
7. The pressure of the Soviet alternative
8. The weak point of the Anglo-American political culture
9. Towards a new race etiquette

Chapters

1. The troubled white consensus
   1. A troubled consensus
   2. The breakdown of white solidarity
   3. The final stand
2. Early warnings: presentiment of racial conflict
   1. The presentiment of danger
   2. The sense of race
   3. The numbers game
   4. The power of numbers
   5. Silent alarm
3. The new racial pragmatism
   1. At a distance
   2. Advocacy of difference
   3. As economic disadvantage
4. Reversing the problem of racism
   1. Race consciousness
   2. Interpreting the reaction to racial consciousness
   3. Reversing the racial motive
5. Crossing the boundary: the marginal man
   1. Drawing a line: the marginal man
   2. Sociological contributions
   3. Holding the line
   4. The panic about the detribalised soldier
6. The Second World War as race war
   1. Racial themes during the war
      1. White fears
      2. Racial interpretation of the demand for equality
      3. The war as an opportunity for the racially oppressed
   2. The role of Japan and the war in Asia
   3. An international issue
   4. Counter-propaganda towards 'colour feeling'
   5. The emerging racial calculations
7. As an international issue
   1. Imagining changes in the world in racial terms
   2. The fear of losing the Third World
   3. Depoliticising the issue of race relations
8. The silent 1950s: redefining the issue of racism
   1. The eternalisation of racism
   2. A silent subject
9. Conclusion
   • The legacy of containment

External links

• Frank Furedi

  Official website

• Pluto Press

  Official website