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Paperback Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity Book

ISBN: 069100403X

ISBN13: 9780691004037

Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity

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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...

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