migration and secularisation Flashcards
Wartime migration (2)
Black US GIs seen as not upstuck as white - GIS informed to be nice to each other - british come across as patronizing - pets 2) black gis prevented from marrying uk women - mixed babies - mass insituitonalised - alienation in white families
Post ww2 migration (5)
need for labour workers - but denial - 2) 1948 british natioanlity act - unites empire - liberal - leads to windrush - yet gov embarrasment - didnt want migrants 3) try to disperse migrants to stop black communities. 4) recruitment for nhs reliant on colonial workers 5) attitudes change - racism associated with facism and nazism.
Tension (7)
1958 - 200,000 coloured 2) alot of people unemployed due to colour - too hot for mines 3) riots in 1958 in Notting Hill - legislative response- immigration tightened up 1962 - priorities of skill and ability so immigration national looks to be national interest. legislation to counter discrimination - race relations act. 4) enoch powell -rivers of blood - conflict between races - fired 5) 1981 brixton riots - unfair stop and seach laws 6) 1993 - stephen lawrence murder - police seen as racist 7)9/11 suspicion over muslim communities
Decline in social significance of religion (3)
Delice in church attendance, marriages etc - but believing without belonging? 2) mary whitehouse - 1964 manifesto of clean up tv campaign - bbc reponse - tolerant to all expression 3) diversity due to immigration - 2006 racial and religous hatred act
Belief in racial hierarchies
freakshows - legitamised by science - impure 2) slave trade though eventual abolition