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Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool
John Belchem
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Description for Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool
Hardcover. A fascinating study that examines Liverpool's mixed population and its approach to race relations, in order to provide historical context and perspective to debates about Britain's experience of empire in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
Long before the arrival of the ‘Empire Windrush’ after the Second World War, Liverpool was widely known for its polyglot population, its boisterous ‘sailortown’ and cosmopolitan profile of transients, sojourners and settlers. Regarding Britain as the mother country, ‘coloured’ colonials arrived in Liverpool for what they thought to be internal migration into a common British world. What they encountered, however, was very different. Their legal status as British subjects notwithstanding, ‘coloured’ colonials in Liverpool were the first to discover: ‘There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’. Despite the absence of significant new immigration, despite the high levels of ... Read more
Long before the arrival of the ‘Empire Windrush’ after the Second World War, Liverpool was widely known for its polyglot population, its boisterous ‘sailortown’ and cosmopolitan profile of transients, sojourners and settlers. Regarding Britain as the mother country, ‘coloured’ colonials arrived in Liverpool for what they thought to be internal migration into a common British world. What they encountered, however, was very different. Their legal status as British subjects notwithstanding, ‘coloured’ colonials in Liverpool were the first to discover: ‘There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’. Despite the absence of significant new immigration, despite the high levels of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319679
SKU
V9781846319679
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Ref
99-1
About John Belchem
John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, is acknowledged as Liverpool’s leading historian, whose many publications include editing the Liverpool 800 book, published on the city’s 800th anniversary. He recently contributed to the Peterloo Massacre bicentenary programme.
Reviews for Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool
'With this - his best - book, Professor Belchem tells a story from the Mersey that not only speaks to the British present, it roars. [...] So roll over Nigel Farage: longer then anywhere else in Britain, Liverpool has heard it all before and knows where it leads.' Ed Vulliamy, The Observer
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