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  • The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool

    The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool The Sociological Review Volume 3, Issue 1 (July 1955) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1955.tb01045.x Maurice Broody Some of the most urgent social problems of a cosmopolitan seaport city like Liverpool are problems of adjustment between ethnic minorities and the indigenous society into which they have migrated. This adjustment…

  • Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly

    Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 17, Issue 4 (1991) pages 511-537 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1991.9976265 Stephen Small, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Director of the Institute of International Studies; Director, The Rotary International Center for Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution University of California, Berkeley The…

  • The Liverpool-Born Black Community

    The history of The Liverpool Black Community seems to have been strangely ignored in the dialogue on asylum seekers and immigration by government pundits.

  • The Changing Face of Liverpool 8

    The Changing Face of Liverpool 8 Diverse Magazine 2009 Dave Clay Four hundred years of shackles and chains, four hundred years of racist names and institutionalised racist games, Slavepool’s history has got to change “Slavepool” by Eugene Lange AKA Muhammad Khalil My mate, the late and inspirational, John Hill once described Liverpool-born Black people as…

  • Philanthropic racism in Britain: The Liverpool university settlement, the anti-slavery society and the issue of ‘half-caste’ children, 1919-51

    Philanthropic racism in Britain: The Liverpool university settlement, the anti-slavery society and the issue of ‘half-caste’ children, 1919-51 Immigrants & Minorities Volume 3, Issue 1 (1984) Pages 69-88 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1984.9974570 Paul B. Rich The history of racial ideology in Britain has focused mainly on extreme groups of the political right. Less attention has been paid…

  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Electronic Precinct University of Liverpool August 1998 Muriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27 Source: University of Liverpool Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film ‘Love…

  • Fletcher Report, 1930 (The)

    The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England] Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.  The report, released on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of…

  • ‘Invisible’ history of mixed race Britain becomes the subject of a major study

    …The ‘mixed’ population is now the fastest growing ethnic group in Britain. While the substantial increase in the size of this group is a recent phenomenon, population mixing has happened throughout the 20th century and earlier. By the 1920s there were settled mixed race populations in a number of British seaports, including Liverpool and Cardiff,…