London is the place for me : Black Britons, citizenship, and the politics of race /
"Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity and imperial citizenship w...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Transgressing boundaries.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Windrush politics
- Race, empire and the formation of Black Britain
- Migration, citizenship and the boundaries of belonging
- "Race riots" and the mystique of British anti-racism
- Are we to be mauled down just because we are Black?
- Exposing the racial politics of immigration controls
- The limits of campaigning against racial discrimination
- Epilogue : Black Britain, the state and the politics of race.