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Title A tolerant nation? : exploring ethnic diversity in Wales / edited by Charlotte Williams, Neil Evans, and Paul O'Leary
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2015]
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Contents Cover; Foreword; List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Race, Nation and Globalization in a Devolved Wales; 1. Immigrants and Minorities in Wales, 1840-1990: A Comparative Perspective; 2. Slaughter and Salvation: Welsh Missionary Activity and British Imperialism; 3. The Other Internationalism? Missionary Activity and Welsh Nonconformist Perceptions of the World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 4. Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Literary Representations of the Racial and Gendered Other
5. Wales and Africa: William Hughes and the Congo Institute6. Through the Prism of Ethnic Violence: Riots and Racial Attacks in Wales, 1826-2014; 7. Playing the Game: Sport and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Wales; 8. Changing the Archive: History and Memory as Cultural Politics in Multi-Ethnic Wales; 9. Religious Diversity in Wales; 10. Extending the Parameters of Social Policy Research for a Multicultural Wales; 11. Experiencing Rural Wales; 12. 'This is the place we are calling home': Changes in Sanctuary Seeking in Wales; 13. Getting Involved: Public Policy Making and Political Life in Wales
14. Claiming the National: Nation, National Identity and Ethnic MinoritiesIndex; Back Cover
Summary A Tolerant Nation? brings together experts on Welsh history and culture to offer an overview and detailed analysis of the past two hundred years of ethnic diversity in Wales and its contemporary significance. Offering a historical context in which to understand contemporary Welsh multiculturalism, the book highlights the contributions of ethnic minorities to the development of Welsh economic, social, and cultural life. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to bring it fully up to date.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on March 27, 2015)
Subject Minorities -- Wales
Multiculturalism -- Wales
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Ethnic relations
Minorities
Multiculturalism
Race relations
SUBJECT Wales -- Ethnic relations
Wales -- Race relations
Subject Wales
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Charlotte, 1954-
Evans, Neil, 1948-
O'Leary, Paul
ISBN 9781783161898
1783161892