Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: My culture, right or wrong?


Actually, the people brought to England in the immediate post-war period
WERE British. As part of the British empire, they should be considered
British (at least as far as those living in England should be concerned;
what they considered themselves to be is another matter).  It wasn't until
immigration laws were changed in the 1960s (due no doubt to Enoch
Powell)that they became "imigrants.' And that immigration policy was
certainly racist:  whites fleeing the then-Rhodesia were allowed into
England; Indians who were cast out of Uganda were not. My whole
dissertation was a critique of Eric's position that culture and not race
is at issue--the two are intertwined, as I am sure Eric realizes even if
his post appears to make another point (and, Eric is not alone--Raymond
Williams makes a similiar argument, particularly concerning white working
class perceptions of their new "neighbors"--for a critique of Williams,
see *The Black Atlantic*). Joe




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