Week 7: New Society Dossier
Afro-Caribbean communities
C.L.R. James, 'Colour: another view', 10 December 1964 [PDF]
Fenner Brockway, 'How immigrants live', 10 December 1964 [PDF]
Anne Lapping, 'A hardening colour bar?', 16 March 1967 [PDF]
Colin Macinnes, 'Calypso lament', 6 April 1972 [PDF]
John Kirkcaldy, 'Patois, education and Jamaica', 4 October 1973 [PDF]
Michael Rutter, 'The children of West Indian migrants', 14 March 1974 [PDF]
Sarah Curtis, 'When black is white', 18 December 1975 [PDF]
Joanna Mack, 'West Indians and school', 8 December 1977 [PDF]
Mike Phillips, 'A smell of trouble', 9 February 1978 [PDF] [letter response, 2 March 1978]
Mike Phillips, 'West Indian clubland', 15 June 1978 [PDF]
Geoffrey Driver, 'How West Indians do better at school (especially the girls)', 17 January 1980 [PDF]
'West Indians and school', 24 January 1980 - findings; correspondence
Farrukh Dhondy, 'At the fifth-form disco', 21 February 1980 [PDF]
Martin Kettle, 'The evolution of an official explanation [Scarman Report]', 3 December 1981 [PDF]
'New black toughness' (editorial), 12 March 1981 [PDF]
George Gaskell and Patten Smith, 'How young blacks see the police', 23 August 1985 [PDF]
Ann Phoenix, 'The Afro-Caribbean myth', 4 March 1988 [PDF]
South Asian communities
John Barr, 'Pakistanis in Bradford', 19 November 1964 [PDF]
Dilip Hiro, 'The young Asians of Britain', 1 June 1967 [PDF]
Dilip Hiro, 'The coloured man's view of the British', 22 February 1968 [PDF]
'From Pakistan to Glasgow', 27 May 1971 [PDF]
Paul Harrison, 'The patience of Southall', 4 April 1974 [PDF]
Robert Taylor, 'Asians and a union', 30 May 1974 [PDF]
Brian Spittles, 'Bhushra's life', 30 May 1974 [PDF] [letter response, 6 June 1974]
'Glasgow Asians', 13 February 1975 [PDF]
Sylvia Whitfield, 'Pakistanis or citizens?', 3 July 1975 [PDF]
Muhammad Anwar, 'Young Asians between two cultures', 16 December 1976 [PDF]
Bridget Fowler, Barbara Littlewood and Ruth Madigan, 'Sorry, the job has been taken', 28 April 1977 [PDF]
John Cater and Trevor Jones, 'Asians in Bradford', 13 April 1978 [PDF]
Alison M. Baker, 'Asians are not all alike', 2 November 1978 [PDF]
'Bradford bites back', 21 July 1979 [PDF]
Mihir Bose, 'The Asians of Leicester: a story of worldly success', 16 August 1979 [PDF]
Mihir Bose , 'The misfits of a new generation', 23 August 1979 [PDF]
Paul Barker, 'In ethnic England', 15 October 1981 [PDF]
Madeleine Fullerton, 'A Sikh girl's bridal path', 16 June 1983 [PDF]
David Selbourne, 'The culture clash in Bradford', 26 April 1984 [PDF]
'Tamils: the Jews of the eighties', 27 February 1987 [PDF]
Bradley Borum, 'Asian handicaps', 20 March 1987 [PDF]
Caroline St John-Brooks, 'Asians "pushed" to special schools', 20 March 1987 [PDF]
Race and Society: New Society's supplement
General
Derek Sington, 'Immigration and crime', 31 October 1963 [PDF]
Janet Stewart, 'Race and local government', 19 March 1964 [PDF]
John Rex, 'Integration: the reality', 12 August 1965 [PDF]
'Immigrants at school' (editorial), 18 March 1971 [PDF]
David Milner, 'Prejudice and the immigrant child', 23 September 1971 [PDF]
Bernard Wakefield and Dennis Bainbridge, 'Immigrants in school', 5 December 1974 [PDF]
Linda Dove, 'The hopes of immigrant schoolchildren', 10 April 1975 [PDF]
'Ethnic needs', 27 July 1978 [PDF]
Joanna Mack, 'Race and the census', 27 July1978 [PDF]
Stan Taylor, 'Racism and youth', 3 August 1978 [PDF]
Jill Turner, 'Meeting ethnic needs', 20 November 1978 [PDF]
John Rex, 'The right lines for race research' and Martin Kettle, 'Race and immigration control', 5 April 1979 [PDF]
'Family and kinship in Bristol', 23 August 1979 [PDF]
Salman Rushdie, 'The new empire within Britain', 9 December 1982 [PDF]
Other groups
Jonathan Raban, 'Among Cypriots', 24 May 1973 [PDF]
Brian Jackson and Anne Garvey, 'The Chinese children of Britain', 3 October 1974 [PDF]
Geoff Dench, 'The Maltese in Britain', 17 April 1975 [PDF]
Jamie Kenny, 'Out of the frying pan', 27 May 1988 [PDF] [Chinese community]
Lastly, by way of a contrast...
Colin Cross, 'Britain's racialists', 3 June 1965 [PDF]