Beyond the Mother Country - West Indians and the Notting Hill White Riots

List of contents

Preface to the Paperback edition
Preface
Introduction

1. Exodus to the Mother Country
2. An Expendable Commodity
3. No Coloureds, No Irish, No Dogs
4. From Rachman to Ruin
5. Keeping Britain White
6. The Beginning of Anger
7. Riot
8. Notting Hill to Westminster
9. Out of the Ashes
10. Epilogue

Notes
Index

About the author

Edward Pilkington is a freelance journalist whose writings have appeared in New Society, The New Statesman, and City Limits.

Summary

The British Government's relaxed approach to black immigration after 1948 is examined in detail up to the Notting Hill riots of 1958.

Product details

• Authors: Ed Pilkington, Pilkington Ed, Pilkington Edward
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781350186583
• ISBN: 978-1-350-18658-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social issues & processes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies