"We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain

The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture

by Laura Tabili

Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of xenophobia and racism; here Tabili recovers the historical conditions under which racial inequality was institutionalized in Britain.

255 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994