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City Close-up: Blackburn

Name: City Close-up: Blackburn
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780140037210

Jeremy Seabrook

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City Close-up (Blackburn) Seabrook, Jeremy

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288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

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Jeremy R. Seabrook was an English author and journalist who specialised in social, environmental and development issues. His book The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.

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Neil

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December 10, 2023

The intro to this book was so beautiful. And there are fragments of insight. But otherwise the racism and xenophobia of the book’s subjects, which Seabrook quotes over and over again, uncritically, gets difficult to read. He also managed to only interview one non-white person, from what I could tell. An early example of the “what about the white working class!?” literature.