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This chapter is concerned with providing a historically specific overview of the politics of race and immigration in the period from the late nineteenth century to 1945. This is necessary because it is impossible to fully comprehend the politicisation of racial questions in Britain since 1945 without a historical perspective, despite the tendency in many recent studies of this subject to ignore this dimension.
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On the history of race and immigration in British society the best starting point is C. Holmes (1988). Two important collections of original papers are to be found in C. Holmes (ed.) (1978) and K. Lunn (ed.) (1980). On the history of Irish migration and attitudes towards the Irish see R. Swift and S. Gilley (eds) (1985) and L.P. Curtis (1968). On the politics of Jewish immigration see B. Gainer (1972) and L.P. Gartner (1973). P. Fryer (1984) takes a historical view of the black presence in British society, and two other sources on this subject are R. Ramdin (1987) and P. Rich (1986).
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Solomos, J. (1989). Race and Immigration in British Politics: The Historical Context. In: Race and Racism in Contemporary Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20187-7_2
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