1st Edition

Windrush (1948) and Rivers of Blood (1968) Legacy and Assessment

244 Pages

by Routledge

244 Pages

by Routledge

244 Pages

by Routledge

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This volume looks at Britain since 1948 – the year when the Empire Windrush brought a group of 492 hopeful Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom. “Post-war Britain” may still be the most common label attached to studies in contemporary British history, but the contributors to this book believe that “post-Windrush Britain” has an explanatory power which is equally useful. The objective is... Read more

List of contributors

Preface

Part I - Windrush and Powell: context, reaction, testimony

Chapter 1 2048: Europe One Hundred Years on from Windrush - Trevor Phillips OBE

Chapter 2 The Children of the Windrush Generation: An Oral History Study - Sharon Baptiste

Chapter 3 The Stars Campaign for Interracial Friendship and the Notting Hill Riots of 1958 - Rick Blackman

Chapter 4 Many Rivers to Cross: The Legacy of Enoch Powell in Wolverhampton - Patrick Vernon OBE

Chapter 5 Enoch Powell, the Anglosphere, and the roots of Brexit - David Shiels

Chapter 6 Citizen Backlash Correspondence: Letters to Enoch Powell after "Rivers of Blood" - Neal Allen

Part II - Caribbean legacies: Culture in Britain since Windrush

Chapter 7 Producing a (cultural) identity: nation and immigration in Stuart Hall’s writing - Carlos Navarro González

Chapter 8 "There soon may not be any West Indian left who made the passage to England": Caryl Phillips and the Windrush Years - Josiane Ranguin

Chapter 9 Letters and Chronicles from the Windrush Generation: Epistolary Sorrow, Epistolary Joy - Judith Misrahi-Barak

Chapter 10 "Don’t Call Us Immigrants": The Musical and Political Legacy of Reggae in Britain - David Bousquet

Chapter 11 Forever Other? Black Britons on Screen (1959-2016) - Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet

Chapter 12 The Windrush Generation in the Picture: Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Dennis Morris and Charlie Phillips - Kerry-Jane Wallart

Chapter 13 Chris Hannan’s What Shadows: What drama? A conversation with the nation - Pascal Cudicio

Chapter 14 In Conversation with Chris Hannan, author of What Shadows

Part III - Post-war British immigration policy in context: two international comparisons

Chapter 15 Framing and Legitimising Discriminatory Immigration Policies: A Cross-Channel Survey (1948-1970) - Vincent Latour and Catherine Puzzo

Chapter 16 The Empire Windrush Migration in international context: Debates about Race and Colour of Skin in British Canada, 1900s-1960s - Dirk Hoerder

Index