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Bonds of empire :

(Number (ISBN

0199588554

(Number (ISBN

9780199588558

Number

b533982

Title Proper

Bonds of empire :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to decolonization /

First Statement of Responsibility

Anne Spry Rush

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vi, 274 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-262) and index

Text of Note

In the first half of the twentieth century Britishness was an integral part of the culture that pervaded life in the colonial Caribbean. Caribbean peoples were encouraged to identify with social structures and cultural values touted as intrinsically British. Many middle-class West Indians of colour duly adopted Britishness as part of their own identity. Yet, as Anne Spry Rush explains in Bonds of Empire, even as they refashioned themselves, West Indians recast Britishness in their own image, basing it on hierarchical ideas of respectability that were traditionally British, but also on more modern expectations of racial and geographical inclusiveness. For West Indians, Britain became the focus of an imperial British identity, an identity which stood separate from, and yet intimately related to, their strong feelings for their tropical homelands

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Moving from the heights of empire in 1 900 to the independence era of the 1960s, Rush argues that middle-class West Indians used their understanding of Britishness first to establish a place for themselves in the British imperial world, and then to negotiate the challenges of decolonization. Through a focus on education, voluntary organization, the challenges of war, radiobroadcasting, and British royalty, she explores how this process worked in the daily lives of West Indians in both the Caribbean and the British Isles. Bonds of Empire thus traces West Indians' participation in a complex process of cultural transition as they manipulated Britishness and their relationship to it not only as Caribbean peoples, but also as Britons. Book jacket

Ethnology-- West Indies, British

National characteristics, British

National characteristics, West Indian

West Indians-- Social life and customs-- 20th century

West Indies, British, Civilization, 20th century

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Book number

Rush, Anne Spry

Date of Transaction

20110831005618.0

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[Book]

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