Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool

by Jacqueline Nassy Brown

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The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069111563X

ISBN13:9780691115634

Release Date:March 2005

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:306 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.7" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Anthropology Cultural England Europe History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Specific Demographics Urban

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