Political Interpretations of ‘Racial Segregation’ in Britain

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
S J Smith
Keyword(s):  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
Residential Differentiation ◽  
De Jure Segregation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Black Britons

Perhaps because Britain has no history of de jure segregation, the politics of ‘race’ have received little attention in theories of residential differentiation based on the experience of that country. Segregation has, however, been of concern to British politicians throughout the postwar period. In this paper it is shown how, and it is suggested why, their responses have inadvertently sustained rather than ameliorated racial inequalities in the structure of residential space. It is argued that the politics of ‘racial segregation’ have played a key role in undermining the rights of citizenship to which black Britons are entitled.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

This chapter introduces the concept of taxpayer citizenship and its role in constructing racial inequalities in U.S. history. In particular, the introduction examines the way taxpayer identity has often served as code for whiteness and as an alibi for racial segregation. This chapter also examines the connections between taxes and rights in the history of racial inequality in the U.S. and identifies the pitfalls of justifying policy and spending through the language of taxpayer rights.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land, by Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson. (2016). Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre McCorkindale
Keyword(s):  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
History Of

BOOK REVIEWViola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land, by Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson. (2016). Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing.

Planes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra D. Bhimull
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Black People ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
White Flight ◽  
White People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Air Passage ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Chapter 4 concentrates on how people learned to be in and live with ordinary flight through the everyday sky. Focused on air passage itself, it explores how a flying culture took hold and examines the affective dimensions of airline travel. Analyzing air travel stories, it chronicles what first-generation fliers did and felt inside early airline cabins. The vertical distance between the airplane and the ground profoundly altered the ways air passengers related to colonial landscapes and lives beneath them. The second part of the chapter illuminates how black people on the ground reacted to white people in the sky, and vice versa. It connects the emergence of everyday air travel practices to the upward expansion of empire. The last part of the chapter brings the history of white flight and racial segregation to present-day discussions of aerial mobility and the varying experiences of frequent and infrequent fliers.

Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939–1945

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Soviet System ◽  
Total War ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Red Army ◽  
History Of

This chapter focuses on the Gulag during the Armageddon of the Great Patriotic War. It shows how the institutions, practices, and identities of the Gulag shifted in accord with the demands of total war. The war was an era of mass release on an unprecedented scale side by side with the highest mortality rates in the history of the Gulag system. After four years of brutal, exhausting warfare and a disastrous initial stage, the Soviet Union emerged from its Armageddon victorious. The early postwar period offered no indication that the Gulag would cease to be a mass social phenomenon within fifteen years. Rather, the Gulag remained a pillar in the reestablishment of the Soviet system, following the Red Army into liberated territories, so that every liberated district received its own corrective labor colony. By 1944, the camp and colony population began to grow again.

No Peculiar Strictness Is Observed

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-50
Author(s):  
Wendy Gonaver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cost Saving ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the life and writings of Superintendent John M Galt, and argues that the experience of heading an asylum in the United States South and the example of slaves hiring out prompted institutional innovation. Galt was the only American Superintendent to publicly endorse total non-restraint, reject racial segregation, and promote the cottage system of outpatient care. By showing that slavery provided the impetus for cost-saving initiatives that also maximized patients’ rights, this chapter connects the history of psychiatry with recent scholarship on slavery and modernity. Shunned by his peers in the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, Galt tried to establish a transnational network with superintendents in Brazil and Russia, two societies that were also shaped by systems of coercive labor.

Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War: Some Reflections on the 1945–8 Conjuncture

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Bethell ◽  
Ian Roxborough
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Political ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

The importance of the years of political and social upheaval immediately following the end of the Second World War and coinciding with the beginnings of the Cold War, that is to say, the period from 1944 or 1945 to 1948 or 1949, for the history of Europe (East and West), the Near and Middle East, Asia (Japan, China, South and East Asia), even Africa (certainly South Africa) in the second half of the twentieth century has long been generally recognised. In recent years historians of the United States, which had not, of course, been a theatre of war and which alone among the major belligerents emerged from the Second World War stronger and more prosperous, have begun to focus attention on the political, social and ideological conflict there in the postwar period – and the long term significance for the United States of the basis on which it was resolved. In contrast, except for Argentina, where Perón's rise to power has always attracted the interest of historians, the immediate postwar years in Latin America, which had been relatively untouched by, and had played a relatively minor role in, the Second World War, remain to a large extent neglected. It is our view that these years constituted a critical conjuncture in the political and social history of Latin America just as they did for much of the rest of the world. In a forthcoming collection of case studies, which we are currently editing, the main features of the immediate postwar period in Latin America, and especially the role played by labour and the Left, will be explored in some detail, country by country.1In this article, somewhat speculative and intentionally polemical, we present the broad outlines of our thesis.

Literary Sidelights on Wartime Brisbane

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Patricia Clarke
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
General Information ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

There have been several anecdotal accounts of the literary scene in Brisbane during World War II and numerous references in more general works. In 2000,Queensland Reviewpublished some reminiscences of writers Estelle Runcie Pinney, Don Munro, Val Vallis and David Rowbotham, under the title ‘Writing in Brisbane during the Second World War’. Some of the more important general works include Judith Wright's ‘Brisbane in Wartime’, Lynne Strahan's history ofMeanjinand Judith Armstrong's biographical work on the Christesens,The Christesen Romance. My interest in this subject arose from editing Judith Wright's autobiography,Half a Lifetime, published in 1999, and recently in editing, with her daughter, letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney which were mainly written in Brisbane in the later years of the war and the immediate postwar period. Initially my purpose was to gather information to elucidate people or events mentioned in these writings, but my interest widened to embrace more general information about the period. My research led me to the conclusion thatMeanjinand its editor Clem Christesen were catalysts for many of the literary activities in Brisbane during World War II, not just among resident Australians, but among troops temporarily stationed in Brisbane — particularly Americans, whom Christesen cultivated and published. This article records a few glimpses of literary life in Brisbane, and incidentally in the rest of the country, during a period described by Patrick Buckridge as never having been researched ‘in enough detail’.

Residential Differentiation Research in Guangzhou

2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Xiao Mei Pang ◽  
Li Ming Tang ◽  
Di Cen
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Traffic System ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Residential Differentiation ◽  
Residential Space

The article first analyzed the residential space changes in the last 50 years in Guangzhou, and combined with housing prices, social classes, population density on the spatial distribution, the result shows that residential differentiation (RD) has formed in Guangzhou. Then analyzed the causes of RD, it include public service facilities, traffic system, city environment and land use policy. RD brought some negative effects, in response to sustainable development, draw up some strategies about development control policy, urban planning and architectural design.

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