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Struggles for a Past

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Struggles for a Past

By Kevin Myers

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About the book

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 p...Show more

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ISBN

9780719084805

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

Struggles for a Past

Format

Hardcover

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