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Struggles for a Past: Irish and Afro-Caribbean Histories in England, 1951-2000

Struggles for a Past: Irish and Afro-Caribbean Histories in England, 1951-2000

Myers, Kevin

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryBritish History

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ISBN10: 0719084806
ISBN13: 9780719084805
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jul 1 2015
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

This book examines the construction of ethnic communities, and of multicultural policy, in post-war England. It explores how Irish and Afro-Caribbean immigrants responded to their representation as alien races by turning to history. In cultural and educational projects immigrants imagined, researched, wrote and pictured their pasts. They did so because they sought in the past dignity, a common humanity and an explanation of the hostility that had greeted them in England.

But the meaning of the past is never fixed. Encouraged and conditioned by the burgeoning field of race relations, these histories were interpreted as expressions of difference. They asserted, it was claimed, specific ethnic needs and identities. They were the nation's 'other histories'. Drawing on a wide range of sources and covering many different debates, the book seeks to recover the inclusive historical imagination of radical scholars and activists who saw in the past the resources for a better future.

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