Tolerant Nation?

Charlotte Williams is Professor of Social Work and Deputy Dean at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University; her scholarly work as well as her memoir Sugar and Slate have transformed the understanding of minority ethnic groups in Wales.Neil Evans is a widely published historian of modern Wales, whose work includes pioneering studies of the history of race relations in Wales. He is an honorary research fellow at Cardiff University.Paul O’Leary is Reader in Welsh History at Aberystwyth University, a leading historian of modern Wales, much of whose work focuses on the experience of Irish migrants in Wales and connections between Wales and Ireland.Undergraduates and postgraduates in history, social sciences and literary / cultural studies; professionals in community relations; and social equality; general readers.

• ForewordVaughan GethinList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Race, Nation and Globalization in a devolved WalesNeil Evans, Paul O’Leary and Charlotte Williams1.Immigrants and Minorities in Wales, 1840–1990: A Comparative PerspectiveNeil Evans2.Slaughter and Salvation: Welsh Missionary Activity and British ImperialismJane Aaron3.The Other Internationalism? Missionary Activity and Welsh Nonconformist Perceptions of the World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesAled Jones4.Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Literary Representations of the Racial and Gendered OtherKirsti Bohata5.Wales and Africa : William Hughes and the Congo InstituteNeil Evans and Ivor Wynne Jones6.Through the Prism of Ethnic Violence: Riots and Racial Attacks in Wales, 1826–2014Neil Evans7.Playing the Game: Sport and Ethnic Minorities in Modern WalesNeil Evans and Paul O’Leary8.Changing the Archive: History and Memory as Cultural Politics in Multi-ethnic WalesGlenn Jordan and Chris Weedon9.Religious Diversity in WalesPaul Chambers10.Extending the parameters of social policy research for a multicultural WalesRoiyah Saltus and Charlotte Williams11.Experiencing Rural WalesCharlotte Williams12.‘This is the place we are calling home’: Changes in Sanctuary Seeking in WalesAlida Payson13.Getting Involved: Public Policy making and Political Life in WalesPaul Chaney14.Claiming the National: Nation, National Identity and Ethnic MinoritiesCharlotte Williams

Brings together a wealth of facts, figures, individuals' stories and viewpoints on ethnic diversity in Wales over time - something much needed. -Black and Asian Association Newsletter Those who have an interest in Wales will find this book invaluable. Those wishing to ask similar questions about other cases will also find much of interest. The book stimulates thinking on the ways in which ethnic diversity provides challenges and opportunities to all communities. -Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism ...an important volume, which contains a number of fine essays and merits a wide audience. -Welsh History Review