Is racial conflict essentially a Second World War phenomenon?

Docs en anglais | 8 pages | 28-08-2007 | Format : | Note : Non noté |

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Résumé

Essay: « Is racial conflict essentially a post Second World War phenomenon? ».

« « Keep Britain White », « we will kill the blacks », « we will get the blacks ». This is what people could hear in the streets in 1958 in Britain. This year remains famous for the riots that occurred in the areas of Nottingham and Notting Hill, which can be seen as the key of British racial history.

The causes of this atmosphere of tension and conflict could be summarized as follow: racism, prejudice and discrimination against immigrants and minorities. The majority of the white population clearly wanted all the « coloured people » to go back to their country and racial conflict became such a huge problem at that time that the government policy was constantly concentrating on it.

Although this happened when hundreds of people migrated from the West Indies to the United Kingdom after the Second World War, can we really believe that this conflict between ethnicities essentially took place at this particular time? »

Plot:

I) An overview of British society at that time
II) The causes of racism in this context of post-war immigration
III) The effect of politicization of this phenomenon, a parallel with the previous centuries

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