Multicultural Britain: A People's History - Couverture rigide

Connell, Kieran

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0197797768 ISBN 13 : 9780197797761

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Between the end of the Second World War and the early twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This vivid book tells that remarkable story. Kieran Connell, an historian of Irish and German heritage who grew up in Balsall Heath, inner-city Bir-mingham, takes readers into multicultural communities across Britain at key moments in their development.

Journeying far beyond London, Multicultural Britain ex-plores the messy contradictions of the country's transition into today's diverse society. It reveals the ordinary people who have forged Britain's multiculturalism; skewers public leaders, from Enoch Powell to Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher, who have too often weaponized race for their own political ends; and shines a light on the shifting nature of British racism, revealing its enduring day-to-day impact on ethnic-minority groups.

Between postcolonial reckonings and immigration anxieties, how people live together in Brexit Britain remains an urgent question for our time. Connell's fresh, thought-provoking book unveils British multiculturalism not as a problematic idea, but as a rich and complex lived reality.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kieran Connell is a writer and historian based at Queen's University Belfast. His first book, Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain, was shortlisted for the Whitfield Book Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197797768
• ISBN 13: 9780197797761
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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