| Description |
1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of acronyms and initialisms -- Introduction -- From racism to race -- The local politics of race -- Integration as a project -- Chapter plan -- 1: Precarious lives -- Coming and leaving -- Streets that went black -- Dispatches from the frontline -- Conclusion -- 2: The colour bar -- Colour bars -- Shutdowns -- Bulldozers for Stepney -- Conclusion -- 3: Bad citizens -- The hooligan age -- The civilizing mission |
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Meeting the Teds halfway: Integrating a youth culture -- From the colour-baitersto the culture vultures -- Conclusion: Rough racism -- 4: Good citizens -- Unobtrusive persons -- Civics -- Good neighbours -- Clubbability -- The beat of the bongo -- Conclusion: Good citizenship's limits -- 5: Friends -- Spare-timesocial workers -- Home hospitality -- The Victoria League -- The East and West Friendship Council -- The International Friendship League -- Racial Unity -- In the friendly home -- Conclusion -- 6: Uplifters -- The generation of 1938 -- An excess of organization -- Teamwork |
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Respectability without guarantees -- Conclusion -- 7: Subalterns -- Bringing the peasants into politics -- The subaltern challenge -- Witch doctors -- Garrison men -- Hyde Parkers -- Conclusion -- 8: Erotics -- Crowds -- City after dark -- Lovers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival collections -- Newspapers, magazines, and journals -- Television, film, and music -- Printed primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Colonized by Humanity is a study of racial liberalism at the end of empire. It uncovers the projects to cultivate racial integration developed in the two decades between the arrival of the Empire Windrush and the passage of the first Race Relations Act |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198879961 |
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0198879962 |
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