Historical Context for Small Island Flashcards
(10 cards)
What and when was the Windrush generation?
-Began with the Empire Windrush and ended with the immigration act 1971
-Left Jamaica on 24 May 1948 and arrived in England on 22 June 1948
-800 West Indians to England
What and when was Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood speech
-20 April 1968
-After complaints from British citizens he said that immigration needs to be controlled and stopped after Race Relations Bill or “in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man”
-“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre
What complaints did Enoch Powell get as Birmingham MP?
-an elderly woman living on Wolverhampton street where she was the only white resident. The woman’s husband and two sons had died in ww2 and she had rented out the rooms in her house. Once immigrants had moved into the street in which she lived, her white lodgers left.
In the 1998 BBC documentary on the Windrush Generation, how many West Indians joined the war effort in 1939?
-10,000
What was Lord Kitchners “London is the Place for me” song and lines?
-Lord Kitchner wrote this song while travelling on the Empire Windrush otw to England
-The song Begins and ends with the sounds of big ben: Synecdoche (when a part represents the whole) of London
- ” I am glad to know my Mother Country” and says ”because the english people are very much sociable”
What did the Nationality Act 1948 permit?
-gave all ‘colonial citizens’ British nationality and migration rights
Who is James Berry and what did he write about?
-Poet James Berry, born 1924 in Jamaica
in 2007 wrote about the awful situations facing the Caribbean in the 1940s:
-“And here we were, hating the place we love, because it was on the verge of choking us to death”
-“none of us wanted to grow up poverty stricken”
Who coined the term “colonial mindset” and what did they define it as?
-David and Okazaki, 2006
-“Colonial mentality is the idea that one has been conditioned to attach more importance to the values of the dominant culture over one’s own”
-“One’s own attitudes, beliefs, and values are therefore devalued.”
-“Colonial mentality is a form of internalised racial oppression”
Who wrote “colonizin in reverse” and lines from the poem?
-Louise-Bennett-Coverley (1966)
-“Jamaican people colonizin Englan in reverse”
-the mass migration of Jamaicans to the UK and uses the irony of coloinzing to suggest Jamaican dominance which is untrue
