Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1781623
E. West
ABSTRACT Drawing on archival material from the Black Cultural Archives, the British Library, and the Institute of Race Relations, this article sheds fresh light on a largely overlooked 1991 visit to Britain by controversial Black American preacher Al Sharpton following the racist murder of Black teenager Rolan Adams. The extraordinary response to Sharpton’s arrival by the British mainstream press revealed racist patterns of news reporting and a chauvinistic rejection of ‘outside agitators’, while the minister’s intervention drew a mixed response from local activists. However, the furore sparked by Sharpton’s visit also helped to raise public awareness of Adams’ murder and galvanise local Black communities, providing an important insight into anti-racist organising and British media coverage of high-profile racist incidents prior to the death of Stephen Lawrence.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1781624
Simon Peplow
ABSTRACT The arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948 has been cemented as a mythical central symbol for immigration in histories of modern Britain. This article traces the growth and impact of the ‘Windrush-as-origins’ myth through study of its depiction in British newspapers. It demonstrates the contradictions raised and seemingly ignored by such portrayals of migration, as well as the issues caused by the manufactured centrality of this constructed origin story for those who do not neatly fit into a simplistic narrative of the ‘irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain’ since World War II.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1781626
Ben Bland
ABSTRACT The summer of 1976 is an under-cited moment of significance in the history of race and immigration in post-war England. A series of major incidents appeared to highlight lasting racial fractures in English society, often exacerbated by the provocative editorial decisions of the press. This article, focused particularly on events in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, analyses some of the ways in which constructions of a ‘crisis of race relations’ were developed in local and national newspapers during this tumultuous summer.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1677467
K. Nowak
ABSTRACT During the Second World War, a group of Polish refugees was placed in camps in British colonial East Africa. In 1948, the idea of relocating them to Europe for resettlement purposes brought about a fierce protest action where refugees petitioned prominent figures and organisations. Analysing this incident, the article explores the situation of the refugees on the margins of the mass international aid which emerged in the aftermath of the war. It demonstrates how the refugees negotiated their circumstances and mobilised their resources by engaging with the dominant discourses, including the concept of human rights, to their benefit and in doing so contributed to changing procedures on the ground.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1677353
Reuben A. Loffman
Following the publication of Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost in 1998, the history of the Congo Free State (1885–1908) has become global news. Far from being the preserve of a select coterie ...
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1637259
Fabrice Langrognet
ABSTRACT This article offers a microhistorical perspective on interethnic violence. It focuses on a fait divers that took place in 1900 near Paris and was widely construed as a result of ethnic antagonism. Drawing from a multitude of archival records, the article critically assesses the retrospective accounts of that multi-participant fight, and resituates it in its social context. It argues that a variety of factors were at play, among which ethnicity was not dominant. This assessment emerges from a close analysis of the combatants’ background and contingent rivalries, as well as an examination of structural causes such as hyper-masculinity and alcoholism.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1630611
David Morris
ABSTRACT This study places Jewish settlement in Scotland in the wider context of mass migration from Russia to the USA. It uses US passenger lists to trace a sample of Jewish migrants back to their places of origin in Russia. It also uses the 1930 US Federal Census to trace the migration paths of a sample of Scottish-born Jews after they had emigrated to the USA. Crucially, this paper argues that the Jews in Scotland did not constitute a national Jewry prior to the early 1920s.
{"title":"The Making of Scottish Jewry: Jewish Secondary Migration through Scotland","authors":"David Morris","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2019.1630611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2019.1630611","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study places Jewish settlement in Scotland in the wider context of mass migration from Russia to the USA. It uses US passenger lists to trace a sample of Jewish migrants back to their places of origin in Russia. It also uses the 1930 US Federal Census to trace the migration paths of a sample of Scottish-born Jews after they had emigrated to the USA. Crucially, this paper argues that the Jews in Scotland did not constitute a national Jewry prior to the early 1920s.","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":"37 1","pages":"44 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2019.1630611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42783499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1677340
Rob Waters
{"title":"Muslim Communities in England 1962–90: Multiculturalism and Political Identity","authors":"Rob Waters","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2019.1677340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2019.1677340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":"37 1","pages":"125 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2019.1677340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47306052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1623673
A. Byrne
ABSTRACT In May 1830, a previously unknown Ulster merchant left Derry on a ship bound for Canada. In this paper I identify him as David Blair Little. Of a prominent merchant family, Little was educated and well-read, a characteristic of those who left Ireland prior to the ‘Great Famine’. This article analyses his self-positioning in relation to other Irish migrants in Canada and the self-differentiating strategies employed in his memoir. The article also disentangles Little’s engagement with and borrowings from popular travel accounts of the Canadas and considers their influences on his experiences. His engagement with contemporary literature and popular science illuminates the intellectual life of the middling-sort merchant class in Ulster in the first part of the nineteenth century, an important constituency of the pre-Famine Irish migrant population.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2019.1677351
Eliana Hadjisavvvas
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