Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c. 1880-present (Racism, Resistance and Social Change) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1526171112 ISBN 13: 9781526171115

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2024

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Concepts of 'race' and racism are central to British history. They have shaped, and been shaped by, British identities, economies and societies for centuries, from colonialism and enslavement to the 'hostile environment' of the 2010s. Yet state and societal racism has always been met with resistance. This edited volume collects the latest research on anti-racist action in Britain, and makes the case for a multifaceted, historically contingent 'tradition' of British anti-racism shaped by local, national and transnational contexts, networks and movements. Ranging from Pan-Africanist activism in the 1890s to mutual aid women's groups in the 1970s, from anti-racist trade union marches in Scotland to West African student groups in North East England - this book explores the continuities and interruptions in British anti-racism from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Saffron East is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities at King's College London
Grace Redhead is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter
Theo Williams is a Lecturer in Social History at the University of Glasgow

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Is there a ‘tradition’ of British anti-racism? This volume brings together new, original scholarship to demonstrate that, if there is a meaningful tradition of ‘British’ anti-racism, it was created by citizens and subjects and it has been shaped by shifting imperial and transnational politics as well as national and local contexts.

The volume traces how the history of anti-racism in Britain has been characterised at one end of the spectrum by paternalism and at the other end by solidarity, identifying this spectrum as a major axis within British political culture. It examines the anti-racist and anti-imperialist alliances forged during the late nineteenth century, explores how anti-racist action shifted to decolonial state resistance and organising in the embers of empire, and analyses how histories and memories of racism and anti-racism were reframed and expressed at the turn of the millennium. Contributors identify moments of multi-ethnic solidarity between a range of communities and organisations, from trade unions to community ‘self-help’. Chapters in this volume also pay attention to how cultural forms play a role in racial formation and anti-racist activism and alliances.

Crucially, this volume explores anti-racism as a shifting and ongoing project of resistance with multiple points of geographic, intellectual and political origin, highlighting key continuities and fractures in the history of anti-racism in Britain.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1526171112
• ISBN 13: 9781526171115
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
• Herausgeber: East Saffron, Redhead Grace, Williams Theo
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