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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perry, Kennetta Hammond, 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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.