We Ask for British Justice: Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial BritainTabili tells in unprecedented detail the story of racial subordination and Black resistance in the first half of this century. Drawing on rich archival evidence, she traces the sources of racial conflict to the structure of the labor market in merchant shipping, a global industry that relied on cheap labor from the colonies. As she reconstructs the social meaning of race in the late empire, she describes how unions, workers, and British and colonial governments all struggled to define who was Black and what this meant in relation to the prerogatives of British identity. |
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Problems of Empire | 30 |
Recolonizing Black | 58 |
We Shall Soon Be Having Rule Britannia Sung | 81 |
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