British culture after empire : race, decolonisation and migration since 1945 /
This volume follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of loca...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Studies in imperialism.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rhodesia and the 'rivers of blood' / Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker
- Part I: Institutions of empire
- 'Bloomsbury bazaar': Daljit Nagra at the diasporic museum / John McLeod
- Anthropology at the end of empire: Turning a 'colonial science' on Britain itself / Katherine Ambler
- 'He is not a 'racist' but should not be appointed director of LSE': The impact of colonial universities on the University of London / Dongkyung Shin
- Part II: Writing identity, conflict and class
- Beyond experience: British anti-racist non-fiction after empire / Dominic Davies
- Empire, war and class in Graham Swift's 'Last Orders' (1996) / Ed Dodson
- Part III: Racial others, national memory
- White against empire: Imagination, decolonisation and Britain's radical right, 1954-1967 / Liam J. Liburd
- Racism, redistribution, redness: The Royal Historical Society and 'Race, Ethnicity, & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change' / Shahmina Akhtar
- Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain / Astrid Rasch
- Part IV: At home in postcolonial Britain
- Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction / Tasnim Qutatit
- Black, beautiful and essential British: African Caribbean women, belonging and the creation of Black British beauty space in Britain (c. 1948-1990) / Mobeen Hussain
- Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s / Steve Bentel
- Tribe arts, tribe talks / Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd, Emma Parker, Samran Rathore and Tajpal Rathore
- Afterword: Disorder and displacement / Bill Schwarz.