Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of IdentityPrinceton University Press, 25 ian. 1999 - 280 pagini In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. |
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... inhabitants of the island against the claims of their former subjects by defining Britishness as an inheritance of race. Prior to the enactment of the 1981 act, the British law on nationality and subjecthood had been anything but ...
... inhabitants of the as-yet-uncolonized imperial territories, who were grouped together with the inhabitants of the United Kingdom as United Kingdom-and-Colonies citizens, would remain British subjects. A frankly fantastic piece of ...
... inhabitants of Britain's sovereign territories were putatively equal, sovereignty was not exerted equally over all the empire's territories. In Nigeria, for example, Britain administered both a colony and a protectorate. Inhabitants of ...
... inhabitants of the United Kingdom. But while intra-island protests against the coincidence of Britishness with Englishness tend to suggest that Anglocentric constructions of Britishness erase the cultural identity of those Britons who ...
... inhabitants, exposed to the baleful influence of “crowded tenements,” had become more like “Arab[s]” or “Gypsy[s]” than Englishmen (Works, 8:227). But they, together with all the empire's subjects, were not, in theory, beyond redemption ...
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