Whitewashing Britain : : Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era / / Kathleen Paul.

Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned immigrants and thereby altering an expansive nationalit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 15 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION. The Road from 1945
  • CHAPTER ONE. Subjects and Citizens
  • CHAPTER TWO. Emigrating British Stock
  • CHAPTER THREE. Recruiting Potential Britons
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Neither Subjects nor Aliens but Irish
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Keeping Britain White
  • CHAPTER SIX. Tinkering at the Edges of Nationality
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Still the Same Old Story
  • Notes
  • Index