Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of IdentityPrinceton University Press, 25.01.1999 - 280 Seiten In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. |
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... become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still. —Enoch Powell, Reflections of a Statesman LOCATION , LOCATION , LOCATION “The trouble with the Engenglish,” a ...
... become most readily visible in the moment they are repudiated, I want now to turn to that moment, both for the light it casts on the localist ideology that, for almost two centuries, held together the discourses of Englishness and ...
... become the British law of subjecthood: the ius soli.9 Literally the “law of the soil,” the ius soli survived unaltered for the better part of nine centuries and provided, at first glance, a remarkably simple rule for the determination ...
... become isomorphic with either the “original” boundaries of the nation or with certain revered and ultra-auratic locations within the nation—or more commonly “other discourses of loyalty” emerge, “sometimes linguistic, sometimes racial ...
... finding her neighborhood increasingly occupied by black immigrants, nevertheless refused to rent rooms in her home to “negroes” and consequently became the “victim” of abuse: “She is becoming afraid to go 14 INTRODUCTION.
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