Abstract
Chapter 6 constitutes an extensive exploration of the last of the key purposes: recovery. Recovery involved the reconstruction of an identity that has been lost or stolen due to socio-political factors beyond the control of the community in question. This chapter focuses on an African-Caribbean school and an Irish school, as it was in these two schools that the recovery discourse appeared as a predominant underlying feature. Whilst the African-Caribbean school sought to recover the true pre-colonialism, pre-slavery ‘African’ identity, the Irish school was focused on the recovery of the vibrant Irish identity that existed prior to the IRA Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. The chapter documents the respective narratives of identity depletion and loss and also charts the methods used by these schools to reinstate desired identities. This chapter uncovers the important function of supplementary schools in the re-establishment of community identity coherency.
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Simon, A. (2018). Recovery. In: Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50057-1_6
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