Jane L. Chapman

African and Afro-Caribbean Repatriation, 1919-1922

Black Voices

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This book is the first attempt to analyse records of people of Afro-Caribbean origin who appealed against repatriation during the painful period after Britain's1919 race riots. Revealing personal letters and petitions from the West Indies, West Africa, and the U.K., Jane Chapman demonstrates that conflict adjustment involving individual voices needs to be highlighted. She asks, what was the human environment, the dilemmas and the racist compulsions making transnational experiences in the British Empire so poignant? Analysing both the opinions of civil servants on appellants' statements of hardship and requests for financial help, and the voic… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-68813-8
EAN: 9783319688138
Produktnummer: 27812179
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'163 KB

Über den Autor

Jane Chapman is Professor of Communications at Lincoln University, UK, and Research Associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge. She has authored twelve books and thirty articles and book chapters, as well as acting as an editorial board member for several international journals. She shared the 2017 Colby Prize for Victorian Literature.