How far do you agree that attitudes towards immigrants changed in the years 1945-79?
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- How far do you agree that attitudes towards immigrants changed in the years 1945-79?
- Thesis: Attitudes towards immigrants changed significantly 1945-79
- Social attitudes
- Research into the 'colour problem'
- No support for Oswald Mosely's 1959 campaign against immigration
- Government legislation
- Less people viewed the Colonies as inferiors - more as war allies (revocation of the Alien Orders Act in 1942)
- Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd was keen to uphold the international prestige of British liberalism
- 27,000 Ugandan Asians
- 1965/8 Race Relations Acts (Wilson) banned descriminatoin/hatred
- Not able to complain about the police
- 1976 Race Relation Act toughened racial discrimination/victimisation, set up CORE (1976)
- Not able to complain about the police
- Less people viewed the Colonies as inferiors - more as war allies (revocation of the Alien Orders Act in 1942)
- Integration
- Cuisine was increasingly influenced by immigrants (South Asia/ Italy/ China)
- Sport/ popular culture
- Inter-Departmental Committee on Colonial People in the UK set up to investigate how to promote racial integration locally/ 'disperse' immigrants - didn't have expertise
- Social attitudes
- Antithesis: Attitudes towards immigrants stagnated 1945-79
- Socially
- Chain migration prevented integration (e.g. Nevisians in Leicester)
- Low levels of interracial marriage
- No British converts to new religions
- Racism persisted into the 1970s
- Black and White Minstrel Show -1988
- Peter Griffith's 1973 West Bromwich campaign
- National Front (1967)
- Caused further toughest immigration laws - alienation/anger
- Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech (1968) - 75% agreed
- WW2 didn't impact attitudes
- 1958 Notting Hill Riots - stabbings, international coverage
- Some teddy boys were racist
- Influenced by stories of violence in Africa (e.g. Mau Mau uprising in Kenya)/ NY gangs
- Overwhelmingly young men - sensationalised reports in the media
- 'taking their women'
- Influenced by stories of violence in Africa (e.g. Mau Mau uprising in Kenya)/ NY gangs
- Exposed failings of local councils/ 4,000 Caribbeans returned
- Some teddy boys were racist
- Politically
- nearly 3/4ths of the public supported 1962 controls on immigration
- 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Grandfather clause was racist
- Economically
- Lack of integration in housing
- 'White flight'/ 'segregation'
- Fears of American poor black ghettos/ white suburbs
- TUs complained about immigrants taking jobs for lower wages
- 'No blacks'/'No coloureds'
- overcrowded, poor quality reinforced stereotypes
- Lack of integration in housing
- Socially
- Introduction
- Limited until the Notting Hill race riots (1958)
- Conclusion
- Unclear how far recently arrived racial minorities would integrate
- Thesis: Attitudes towards immigrants changed significantly 1945-79
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