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Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 is a powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Exploring the legacy of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization after 1945, it is has become one of the outstanding books about the relationship between gender, race and national identity. Analyzing the role of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domesticity, it brilliantly traces the way in which Englishness became associated with domestic order and the very idea of home became white, exploring themes that reverberate strongly today as arguments around gender, race and feminism occupy the headlines. Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing of politicians, journalists, churchmen, health professionals, novelists and film-makers, Wendy Webster examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives of belonging and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities offers a compelling new perspective on this period. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.

During World War Two, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war. Mixing It tells the extraordinary tales of immigrants who contributed to the British war effort, and uncovers the forgotten history of the role WWII played in the making of multiethnic Britain.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster -- 1 'The Black Peril': Race, Masculinity and Migration During the First World War -- 2 Britain and the Refugees of Europe 1939-50 -- 3 Bilateral Relations: British Soldiers and German Women -- 4 Male and Female Polishness in Post-war Leicester: Gender and its Intersections in a Refugee Community -- 5 Gender, Race and the Ideal Labour Force -- 6 Notions of 'Home' and Belonging Among Greeks in the UK