Struggles for a Past: Irish and Afro-Caribbean Histories in England, 1951-2000

by Kevin T. Myers and Kevin Myers

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719084806
• ISBN13: 9780719084805
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"