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Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

Osler, Audrey2023
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Whether or not we trace our families from beyond the shores of Britain, we deserve a better understanding of our shared past, and opportunities to explore and recognise the complexities and contradictions of empire. Careless or wilful amnesia has allowed the British migration narrative to begin in the mid-twentieth century, with migrants from India, Pakistan and the Caribbean forming the foundation of present-day Britain. A racist fixation means that some twenty-first-century Britons fantasise that people of colour arrived after the Second World War; without any link to the country, to exploit the British welfare state and British hospitality. For people of colour the questions, 'Where are you from? No, where are really from?' often imply more than simple curiosity. They are political questions of identity, since the assumption (naive or aggressive) is that to be British and to belong you must be white.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 2023.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780349014623 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2641568
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