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The UK needed workers, but government documents reveal British subjects in the Caribbean were still actively discouraged from entering the country
In the five years since the Windrush scheme was set up, the scandal of how British people have been treated by their own government has only worsened.
The Windrush generation has a long and storied history encompassing empire, war, migration, multiculturalism, racism and scandal – a history that has transformed British society and culture.
The legacy of racism in both the United States and the United Kingdom has impacted the ability of Blacks and other ethnic groups to accumulate wealth.
Britain’s widely circulated notion of the ‘foreign criminal’ has generated an atmosphere of hostility in Jamaica.
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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Associate Profesor in Human Geography, University of Leicester
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Visiting Research Fellow, Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University
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Professor of Sociology, University of South Wales
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Director of Clinical Legal Education & Senior Lecturer, King's College London
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Assistant Professor in Black British Literature, Durham University
