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‘In 1997 nobody had heard of Windrush’ : the rise of the ‘Windrush Narrative’ in British newspapers
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Peplow, Simon (2019) ‘In 1997 nobody had heard of Windrush’ : the rise of the ‘Windrush Narrative’ in British newspapers. Immigrants & Minorities, 37 (3). pp. 211-237. doi:10.1080/02619288.2020.1781624 ISSN 0261-9288.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1781624
Abstract
The arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948 has been cemented as a mythical central symbol for immigration in histories of modern Britain. This article traces the growth and impact of the ‘Windrush-as-origins’ myth through study of its depiction in British newspapers. It demonstrates the contradictions raised and seemingly ignored by such portrayals of migration, as well as the issues caused by the manufactured centrality of this constructed origin story for those who do not neatly fit into a simplistic narrative of the ‘irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain’ since World War II.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | West Indians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Blacks -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Great Britain -- Race relations, Blacks -- Great Britain -- Social conditions, Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century, West Indians -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century, West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Immigrants & Minorities | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0261-9288 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 37 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 211-237 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02619288.2020.1781624 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Immigrants & Minoritieson on 14/07/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1781624 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 January 2022 |
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