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Author Wemyss, Georgie

Title The Invisible Empire : White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (190 pages)
Series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Studies in migration and diaspora.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Invisible Empire?; White Liberal Discourse; Chapter Outlines; PART I Introduction to Chapters 1 and 2; The London Borough of Tower Hamlets; Theoretical Approaches to Social and Cultural Remembering; 1 Terra Nullius to the Shrouding of Milligan: White Histories on the Isle of Dogs; Terra Nullius: West India Docks and the Isle of Dogs in 1990; White Histories: West India Docks 2000; The Souvenir Programme and Exhibition Panels; Abolition: The Sugar Warehouses 2003â#x80;#x93;2007; Conclusion
2 Competing Colonial Anniversaries in â#x80;#x98;Postcolonialâ#x80;#x99; Blackwall: White Memories, White BelongingIntroduction; Blackwall 1606â#x80;#x93;1806; Blackwall 1990â#x80;#x93;2005: â#x80;#x98;Regenerationâ#x80;#x99; and White Memories; Blackwall 2006â#x80;#x93;2007: Transatlantic â#x80;#x98;celebrationsâ#x80;#x99;; Blackwall 2006: East India Amnesia; White Memories, White Belonging; PART II Introduction to Chapters 3 and 4; 3 Subjects of the Invisible Empire: â#x80;#x98;Outside Extremistsâ#x80;#x99;, â#x80;#x98;White East Endersâ#x80;#x99;, â#x80;#x98;Passive Bengalisâ#x80;#x99;; Eight Days in September 1993
The Construction of Events of September 1993 in Media Reports and Competing Discourses: Keywords, Racial Categories and the Invisible EmpireThe Emergence of Fixed Categories in the Dominant Discourse; Fixed Categories, Missing Histories and the Invisible Empire; Conclusion; PART III Introduction to Chapters 5 and 6; 4 â#x80;#x98;The East Endâ#x80;#x99; Marketing Strategy and the Consolidation of the White East End; Section One: Chronology of the Re-construction of â#x80;#x98;The East Endâ#x80;#x99; from September 1993 to May 1994; Section Two: Dominant White Discourse and â#x80;#x98;The East Endâ#x80;#x99; Marketing Strategy
Section Three: Criticisms of the Carnival as Challenges to the Dominant DiscourseConclusion; 5 Tolerance, the Invisible Empire and the Hierarchy of Belonging; â#x80;#x98;Toleranceâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;Tolerationâ#x80;#x99;; Belonging; Conclusion: Tolerance and Belonging; 6 â#x80;#x98;Lascarsâ#x80;#x99;, Colonial Genealogies and Exclusionary Categories; Introduction; Colonial Racialised Classifications; â#x80;#x98;Lascarsâ#x80;#x99; and Maritime Discrimination; Navigation and Merchant Shipping Acts, Racial Categorisation and Processes of Exclusion; Racial Characteristics of â#x80;#x98;Lascarsâ#x80;#x99;; Violence in Colonial Discourse; Conclusion
Conclusion: Exposing the Invisible Empire: Towards Commonality and Metropolitan BelongingIntroduction; Exigencies of Migration: Remittances, Restaurants and Raids; The London Bombs and â#x80;#x98;Muslimâ#x80;#x99; Identity; Citizenship and the Invisible Empire; The Muslim: Secular Dichotomy; Bibliography
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Subject Hegemony -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
National characteristics, British.
Toleration -- Great Britain
White people -- Great Britain
British.
National characteristics, British
Great Britain -- Race relations.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317027003
1317027000