Abstract
This work discusses how questions of race, class, immigration and nationality have changed since 1948. To answer it I looked at the 1981 Brixton race riot and the 2011 UK urban youth riots. I argue that, despite improvements in black and white race relations, British society has continued to discriminate against black-Brits on multiple levels. I have also found that since the 1980s there has been a governmental and, more generally, a societal neglect of the working-class population as a whole. In regards to the findings of other scholars and historians, my work looks at both urban, poor blacks and whites as a class, without ignoring the vast differences in their racial and cultural experiences. For much of my study, I am also looking exclusively at both black and white urban youths. I look for causality of the discrimination through various factors such as, economics, housing, culture and policing. I seek to find out how societal issues in a first-world country could come to the point of violent rioting on the streets.
Advisor
King, Shannon
Department
History
Recommended Citation
Cruce, Christina Jayne, "Whose Britain Is This Anyway: Questioning Race, Class, Immigration and Nationality in Great Britain Between 1948 and 2011" (2012). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 3832.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/3832
Disciplines
Ethnic Studies | European History
Keywords
race, great britain
Publication Date
2012
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis Exemplar
Included in
© Copyright 2012 Christina Jayne Cruce