From immigrants to ethnic minority : making black community in Britain
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From immigrants to ethnic minority : making black community in Britain
(Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender and class relations)
Ashgate, c2000
- : [hbk.]
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Note
Includes bibliograpical references (p. 273-303) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While there is an extensive sociological literature concerning race relations, racial discrimination and the process of migration, this has tended to focus on snapshots at a given moment in time. There are few historical accounts of the development of black communities in Britain. This book will be the first social history of a black community in modern times which attempts to weave many aspects of life together to give a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of black people in Britain. The book will address the way peoples' lives are constructed through racialized identities and how African Caribbean people in Leicester relate to the wider community. It provides an important contribution to the debate concerning the social class profile of different ethnic groups. The work is gendered throughout and discusses the different nature of the experiences of men and women. The 1991 census shows Leicester to have the highest proportion of ethnic minority residents of any city outside London, however compared to other cities with black and Asian communities, it has received little attention from academics. The present study charts the development of Leicester's African Caribbean community from its origins in the Second World War to 1981 and its changing construction from 'immigrants' to 'ethnic minority'.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Researching black history: problems and issues
- The background to African Caribbean settlement in Leicester
- Race and immigration in the Leicester local press, 1945-1962
- Somewhere to live: African Caribbeans and housing, 1945-1981
- Race and class: the operation of the colour bar and its consequences for the class position of African Caribbeans, 1945-1981
- Too many immigrants : the schooling of African Caribbean children, 1960-1981
- Fighting back: anti-racist organizations and the far right, 1962-1981
- Leisure and religion, 1945-1981
- Conclusion: from immigrants to ethnic minority and the emergence of a community, 1945-1981
- Bibliography
- Index.
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