"We Ask for British Justice" : : Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain / / Laura Tabili.

Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1994
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 tables
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1. “I Can Get No Justice”: Black Men and Colonial Race Relations on the Western Front --
2. “A Shame on Britain’s Part”: Problems of Empire in the Postwar Order --
3. Black Seamen in British Ships: The Uses of Race for British Shipowners --
4. A “Blot on Our Hospitality”: Recolonizing Black Seamen Ashore in Britain --
5. “We Shall Soon Be Having 'Rule Britannia’ Sung in Pidgin English”: The National Union of Seamen and the Uses of Race --
6. Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Nationality: The Coloured Alien Seamen Order, Policy and Protest --
7. “The Honour to Belong”: Black Workers and Interracial Settlements in Interwar Britain --
8. “Getting Out of Hand”: Black Service and Black Activism in “The People’s War” --
Conclusion --
Appendix One. Lascars --
Appendix Two. Chronology of the Anti-Chinese Campaign --
A Note on Archival Documents --
Notes --
Index
Summary:Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of xenophobia and racism; here Tabili recovers the historical conditions under which racial inequality was institutionalized in Britain.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501737930
9783110536171
DOI:10.7591/9781501737930
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Laura Tabili.