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Racism, Whiteness and Black Britain

Explaining History
Explaining History
Episode • Dec 19, 2024 • 28m

In the immediate post war years, the arrival of Black British citizens from the Caribbean was met with widespread racism across most areas of British life. Black people encountering Britain for the first time discovered not a wealthy land of enterprise but one with a poor white working class whom assumed superiority by dint of their skin colour.


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