ISBN:
9780191618499
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8969729
Keywords:
West Indians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
;
Ethnology -- West Indies, British
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National characteristics, British
;
National characteristics, West Indian
;
West Indies, British -- Civilization -- 20th century
;
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Abstract:
An examination of how, from 1900 through the 1960s, West Indians employed their British identity both to establish a place for themselves in the British imperial world, and to negotiate the cultural challenges of decolonization as Caribbean peoples.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contetns -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I: FASHIONING BRITISHNESS -- Prelude -- 1. Schooling Britons -- 2. Royalty and the Bonds of Empire -- II: THE PEOPLE'S EMPIRE: MOBILIZING THE POWER OF BRITISHNESS -- Prelude -- 3. A Model for Secession? The 1936 Abdication Crisis -- 4. Hewing to Tradition: Education Debates in the 1930s and 1940s -- 5. Imperial Identity in Colonial Minds: Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples -- 6. 'One United Family': The World at War -- 7. Egalitarian Imperialism: The BBC and the West Indies -- III: CONTINUITY WITHIN CHANGE: BRITISHNESS IN A NEW WORLD -- Prelude -- 8. 'A Bridge Between': The BBC's Colonial Service -- 9. Modern Raleighs in a New Elizabethan Age -- 10. Business as Usual: Caribbean Britishness in West Indian Schools -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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