The context for the research was the Borough of Waltham Forest, which is located in the environs of London's East End. The first part of the book analyzes the context of racial harassment. The first chapter broadly chronicles aspects of the Asian and black communities' racial territorial experiences during the 1980s. It traces the racial-harassment legacy bequeathed to the borough at the close of the decade. Another chapter focuses on the police as the most significant public agency in the borough. This includes an analysis of the policy role of the metropolitan police generally and in the borough over the same period. It questions whether police action or inaction reinforces or dismantles the local context of racial harassment. A similar approach to analysis is undertaken in the third chapter, as the local council is the focus. The second part of the book develops a model for the framework of analysis. It uses distinct analytic approaches to "map" the boundaries of knowledge concerning racial harassment. Among other issues, this section argues for the importance of an examination of the impact of racial harassment on its victims, as it explores this through an experiential analysis anchored in a sense of social geography and victims rights. The concluding chapter uses the authors' theorization of racial harassment to tie together the significant threads of policy analysis that have implications for local policy developments. Chapter notes, 135-item bibliography, and subject index