British Culture After Empire

Josh Doble is the policy manager at Community Land Scotland and an Honorary Fellow at the University of EdinburghLiam J. Liburd is Assistant Professor in Black British History at the University of DurhamEmma Parker is Lecturer in Literature and Gender at the Department of English, University of Bristol

• Foreword: Living in the bush of ghosts – Elleke BoehmerIntroduction: Rhodesia and the 'Rivers of Blood' – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma ParkerPart I: Institutions of empire1 'Bloomsbury bazaar': Daljit Nagra at the diasporic museum – John McLeod2 Anthropology at the end of empire – Katherine Ambler3 'He is not a "racist" but should not be appointed director of LSE': The impact of colonial universities on the University of London – Dongkyung ShinPart II: Writing identity, conflict and class4 Beyond experience: British anti-racist non-fiction after empire – Dominic Davies5 Empire, war and class in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) – Ed DodsonPart III: Racial others, national memory6 White against empire: Immigration, decolonisation and Britain’s radical right, 1954–1967 – Liam J. Liburd7 Racism, redistribution, redress: The Royal Historical Society and Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change – Shahmima Akhtar8 Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain – Astrid RaschPart IV: At home in postcolonial Britain9 Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction – Tasnim Qutait10 Black, beautiful and essentially British: African Caribbean women, belonging and the creation of Black British beauty spaces in Britain (c. 1948–1990) – Mobeen Hussain11 Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s – Steve Bentel 12 Tribe Arts, Tribe Talks – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd, Emma Parker, Samran Rathore and Tajpal RathoreAfterword: Disorder and displacement – Bill SchwarzIndex

'An important and interesting book filled with important essays.'Freddy Foks, Contemporary British History' ...an engaging and rich conversation about how we can and should conceptualize the manifold legacies of Empire in contemporary Britain, including a useful discussion of these issues in relation to the four nations that make up Britain.'Journal of British Studies