Kevin Myers

Struggles for a past (eBook, PDF)

Irish and Afro-Caribbean histories in England, 1951-2000

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526183996
• Artikelnr.: 70894744

Autorenporträt

Kevin Myers is Senior Lecturer in Social History and Education at the University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The nation and its people 1951
68 2. History and humanism 1968
81 3. Pluralism, politics and the uses of the past 1981
2000 Conclusion Bibliography Index