Colonial Immigrants in a British City

A Class Analysis

John Rex, Sally Tomlinson, David Hearnden, Peter Ratcliffe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032366852
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000777376
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city. Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, social, economic and personal – in a major centre of immigrant settlement. It considers the relationship between housing class and class formations and consciousness in other sectors of allocation, such as employment and education. It includes a consideration of the changing political climate on race relations between 1950 and 1976.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Class analysis and colonial immigrants
• 2 British political ideologies and the race question
• 3 Handsworth – the population and social structure of a multi-racial area
• 4 Black immigrants at work
• 5 Black immigrants and the housing system
• 6 Black immigrants, schools and the class structure
• 7 From immigrants to ethnic minority
• 8 Race, community and conflict
• 9 Working class, underclass and Third World Revolution
• Appendix 1 Sociology, theory, typologies, value standpoints and research
• Appendix 2 Research methodology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index