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Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- PART ONE: MANNINGHAM IN BRADFORD -- 1 · Among the Mirpuri -- 2 · Poor Britain -- 3 · Domestic Dramas -- 4 · Races Apart -- 5 · How Anti-Racism Came to Britain -- 6 · The Honeyford Affair -- PART TWO: HANDSWORTH IN BIRMINGHAM -- 7 · A Bed-sit in Handsworth -- 8 · Singing on Sundays -- 9 · Black, White and Browned-off -- 10 · Black Talk -- 11 · In and Around the Villa Cross -- 12 · Liming Rastas and the Law -- 13 · Action -- 14 · Post-Riot -- Epilogue -- Copyright

After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, leaving the reader panting in her wake. Alongside her enchantment, Dervla became a perceptive witness to the realities of aid work: the corruption, smug piety and power struggles of the bureaucrats, a

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Gourevitch, Philip: We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998