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“There are 100,000 Negroes in Britain today”, the leader ran. “Hundreds more are arriving every month. Thousands of them are already married to white girls. What do relatives and neighbours think about it? How do the children suffer? What is the price in insults, hardships and tears?”
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Remarkably little in-depth historical work has emerged on this theme during the 1950s. See however Wendy Webster, Imagining Home: Gender, “Race” and National Identity, 1945–64 (London, 1998), 48–52; Bill Schwarz, “Black Metropolis, White England”, in Modern Times: Reflections on a Century of English Modernity, eds. Mica Nava and Alan O’Shea (London, 1996), 198–200; Chris Waters, “‘Dark Strangers’ in Our Midst: Discourses of Race and Nation in Britain, 1947–1963”, Journal of British Studies 36 (1997): 228–9
Marcus Collins, “Pride and Prejudice: West Indian Men in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain”, Journal of British Studies 40 (2001): 405–10.
Ruth Landes, “A Preliminary Statement of a Survey of Negro-White Relationships in Britain”, Man 52, no. 184, 185 (1952): 133.
Sydney F. Collins, “The Social Position of White and ‘Half-Caste’ Women in Colored Groupings in Britain”, American Sociological Review 16, no. 6 (1951): 797
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Buettner, E. (2009). “Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?”: Race and Sex in 1950s Britain. In: Levine, P., Grayzel, S.R. (eds) Gender, Labour, War and Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582927_12
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