{"id":35064,"date":"2013-12-17T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35064"},"modified":"2015-03-12T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:03:03","slug":"before-the-windrush-race-relations-in-20th-century-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35064","title":{"rendered":"Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Liverpool University Press<\/a>
\nMarch 2014
\n288 pages
\n16 black and white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps
\n234 x 156 mm
\nHardback ISBN: 9781846319679
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781781380000<\/p>\n

John Belchem<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of History
\nUniversity of Liverpool<\/em><\/p>\n

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Long before the arrival of the \u2018Empire Windrush<\/a>\u2019 after the Second World War<\/a>, Liverpool<\/a> was widely known for its polyglot<\/a> population, its boisterous \u2018sailortown\u2019 and cosmopolitan profile of transients, sojourners and settlers. Regarding Britain as the mother country, \u2018coloured\u2019 colonials arrived in Liverpool for what they thought to be internal migration into a common British world. What they encountered, however, was very different. Their legal status as British subjects notwithstanding, \u2018coloured\u2019 colonials in Liverpool were the first to discover: \u2018There Ain\u2019t No Black in the Union Jack<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Despite the absence of significant new immigration, despite the high levels of mixed dating, marriages and parentage, and despite pioneer initiatives in race and community relations, black Liverpudlians encountered racial discrimination, were left marginalized and disadvantaged and, in the aftermath of the Toxteth riots of 1981<\/a>, the once proud \u2018cosmopolitan\u2019 Liverpool stood condemned for its \u2018uniquely horrific\u2019 racism.<\/p>\n

\u2018Before the Windrush\u2019 is a fascinating study that enriches our understanding of how the empire \u2018came home\u2019. By drawing attention to Liverpool\u2019s mixed population in the first half of the twentieth century and its approach to race relations, this book seeks to provide historical context and perspective to debates about Britain\u2019s experience of empire in the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n