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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back. British Cuisine – 1960s Celebrating diversity today Rice Tea Sushi chips Pasta apples. Empire and Britishness. 8% of British population either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from former colonial territories in Caribbean or South Asia

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The Empire Strikes Back

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  1. The Empire Strikes Back • British Cuisine – 1960s Celebrating diversity today • Rice • Tea • Sushi • chips • Pasta • apples

  2. Empire and Britishness • 8% of British population either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from former colonial territories in Caribbean or South Asia • but huge regional differences - in inner London 25% • no such thing as ‘white’ • dates to 1950s in particular

  3. Commonwealth Immigration ‘Empire Windrush’, June 1948 35 000 1961 115 000

  4. Commonwealth Immigration Act (1962) Enoch Powell • ‘rivers of blood’ speech, April 1968 • began the National Front, 1966 • repatriate all immigrants • ‘milder’ normalized xenophobia

  5. … and, Philippa Levine

  6. Britain isn’t this and it never really was

  7. The face of post-colonial Britain

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