... (2003) supports this view when he "criticises the tendency to treat racism and racial discrimination as interchangeable notions." For Banton and others there is a danger that racism will become a catchall term for quite disparate social, political and economic practices. Miles (1989) warns of the "danger of 'conceptual inflation' in relation to the term in the social sciences" (Solomos 2003: 225). The definition of racial discrimination like racism cannot be defined in one way, and this has become the challenging debate for a number of sociologists and researchers today. In his book There ain't no Black in the Union Jack, Gilroy describes Britain's old-fashion image being hidden behind these blurs: "the first depicts the nation as a homogenous and cohesive formation in which an even and consensual cultural field provides the context for hegemonic struggle. The second is attached to the idea that this country is, and must ...

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