Kennetta Hammond Perry

London Is the Place for Me

Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

In London Is The Place for Me, Kennetta Hammond Perry explores how Afro-Caribbean migrants navigated the politics of race and citizenship in Britain and reconfigured the boundaries of what it meant to be both Black and British at a critical juncture in the history of Empire and twentieth century transnational race politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780190240202
• ISBN-10: 0190240202
• Artikelnr.: 47864424

Autorenporträt

Kennetta Hammond Perry is an Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University. Her research interests include transnational race politics, Black Europe and the connections between emancipation and citizenship. Her work on race politics in Britain has been published in the Journal of British Studies, History Compass and appears in a new volume on 20th century protests movements in the U.S. and the U.K.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Windrush Politics
Chapter 1 Race, Empire and the Formation of Black Britain
Chapter 2 Migration, Citizenship and the Boundaries of Belonging
Chapter 3 'Race Riots' and the Mystique of British Anti-Racism
Chapter 4 Are We to Be Mauled Down Just Because We Are Black?
Chapter 5 Exposing the Racial Politics of Immigration Controls
Chapter 6 The Limits of Campaigning Against Racial Discrimination
Epilogue Black Britain, the State and the Politics of Race