Britishness and Belonging Flashcards
Colley
1992
We decide who we are by reference to what we are not
Series of massive wars
- defined themselves against the Other abroad
Now looks inward for an Other
Carby
2009
Racialized subject is produced DIALOGICALLY
- in relation to others
Post WW2
- Empire in decline, need to assert new Britishness
Racial difference inscribed on body in manners, customs
- Equiano enslaved
- Dehumanization, destruction of the self
Black servicemen racialized (also Carby)
- disciplining against fraternising with white women
- difference constructed by state and authority policy
Migration is now the dominant way for the radicalisation of subject
Tabili
1994
We should see race as a relationship and not a thing
Waters
1997
Race relations came to prominence after WW2
National identity was reconfigured in terms of culture
Identity was formed in opposition to the Other
- Other was lacking characteristics of White Englishness
Women moral vessels
- Dark male stranger a threat
1950s Whites had to learn, blacks had to adapt
Female rebellion
Paul
1995
Common code in 1919 gave all subjects Brit nationality
Code designated values for defining Britishness
- National values
- Narrow and exclusive
- Heirarchized Euro races as superior
Webster
2001
Popular imagery of home as empire.
Enoch Powell’s speech 1968
- Immigrants threat to Englishness
- Violation of home, domestic sanctuaries
- Nation under siege, woman at risk in home
Rise of Englishness, fall of Britishness after Empire
Hall
1989
Identities from outside
- recognised by others
Appropriation of black as an organising category of political resistance
Encounters are structured by dominance
Identity is always in part a narrative
Blackness isn’t monolithic
Wheeler
Black is a way of experiencing the world, rather than just being in it
Proctor
Black identities became highly territorial around 70s
- politicised black identity
Escalating violence in NI contradicted Britain’s homogenous landscape
