How can the application of New Imperial History methodology to the Race Relation

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How can the application of New Imperial History methodology to the Race Relations Act 1976 illuminate the dynamics of power, control, and resistance, providing insights into the relationship between the racial core and periphery within the framework of post-war Britain?
The max word limit for this essay is 1500 words. Here is the essay brief for the task ahead : This essay is very short. The aim is to find a source and problematise it. We want to see that you can a) locate a primary source on your own; and b) analyse it, keeping in mind the perspectives of recent historiographical trends (in this case, the New Imperial History).
Below is a very generic template. Feel free to riff on it as you see fit.
1. Identify the source: ‘The source that I have chosen is x (a letter, diary, report, law, speech, object, fiction, piece of art… pretty much anything!).’
2. Contextualise it:
Who, what, where and when?
3. Problematise it, teasing out its meaning/historical significance: ‘This source is interesting because it can tell us something about…’ – for example (depending on the year and the weekly topics-not all the below are taught every year):
– Imperial careering
– the European imperial imagination
– the ‘othering’ process between cultures
– gender or racial hierarchies and/or power relations
– sexual or ethnic identities and how they relate to processes of empowerment and disempowerment, inclusion and exclusion
– material culture and the objects a society deems valuable or not
– emotional ‘regimes’ and how societies structure emotional expression
– public memory and the political struggles to define it
– intellectual ideas and how they are constructed, diffused and imbibed
Be sure to refer to the source itself to tease out its historical meaning and/or significance, keeping the historiographical trends we are discussing in the module in mind. 4. If you were to relate your chosen primary source to other primary sources (you don’t have space to do so in this essay, of course), what other sources would you want to look at and what questions would you want to ask of them in your quest to tease out their historical significance? Just as a detective begins with a general question (Who dunnit?) then refines and expands upon it as they come across evidence (Where did the weapon come from? What was the motive?), the historian usually begins with a general question (e.g., how did this particular society structure its notions of gender?) then refines it as they come across primary sources (How are gender hierarchies and power relations revealed in this text?) In short, try to think of yourself less as a student who answers question that the teacher provides and more like a historian who crafts their own questions depending on the sources they find. The weekly readings you are learning about will help you craft those questions. We encourage you to find sources related to historical periods you have studied. Familiarity with the basic context will help you make sense of the source you choose. The source at hand as stated in the title is the 1976 race relations act. You must quote the source directly as well as specific forms of histography and how they work hand in hand. As well as this you must contextualise it with the history at the time. For example looking at post-war immigration and how it prompted social scientists in 1960s Britain to turn their attention towards so-called ‘race relations’. Follow this along with the sources guidelines closely. Use the source to comment on on going histography debates. This essay should be written to a UK marking first standard meaning its at at the highest level ticking the following boxes : Compelling answer to the question, expertly supported by evidence
Comprehensive and precise knowledge of relevant topics and sources
Original and sophisticated understanding of relevant sources, theories, methods, and/or debates
Superb presentation, including elegant writing style, strong organisation, and flawless referencing
May achieve, or be close to, a publishable standard
the following citation style must also be met Citation style
A citation style is a system for formatting references, whether in the main text of an essay, in the footnotes, or in the bibliography. It covers such things as the order of information in the citation style, the length of the citation, and the use of capitalisation and italics.
A common style used in the humanities is known as the MHRA style, so-called because it is administered by the Modern Humanities Research Association, a scholarly association based in the UK. Below are some examples of citations formatted in the MHRA style.
A book:
Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 59.
A chapter in an edited book:
Martin Elsky, ‘Words, Things, and Names: Jonson’s Poetry and Philosophical Grammar’, in Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben, ed. by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982), pp. 31–55 (p. 41).
A journal article:
Robert F. Cook, ‘Baudouin de Sebourc: un poème édifiant?’, Olifant, 14 (1989), 115–35 (pp. 118–19).
These examples are taken from the MHRA Style Guide, the third (2013) edition of which is available here. For a short summary of the guide, see pages 3 to 8. For more detail on referencing, see pages 58 to 82.
Another citation style often used by historians is the one in the Chicago Manual of Style, published by the University of Chicago Press and currently in its seventeenth edition. This style is subtly different from the MHRA style, as you can see by comparing these citations with the ones above:
Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 59.
Martin Elsky, “Words, Things, and Names: Jonson’s Poetry and Philosophical Grammar,” in Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982), 41.
Robert F. Cook, “Baudouin de Sebourc: un poème édifiant?”, Olifant 14 (1989): 118–19.
Which citation style should you use? The History Department does not favour one particular style, but it does require that students:
Use the same style throughout any given essay
Use a recognised style for citations rather than inventing your own style – the MHRA and Chicago style guides are examples.
Use footnotes for citations rather than in-text citations, such as the in-text citation style administered by the American Psychological Association (the APA style is widely used in the social sciences but rarely in the humanities)
Include a bibliography at the end of each essay, ie. a list of the works you have cited in the course of the essay
besides from the source here are a list of other readings you could pick up on in your discussion : Allen, Theodore W., The Invention of the White Race (London: Verso, 2012)
Bressey, Caroline, ‘Geographies of Belonging: White Women and Black History’, Women’s History Review, 22:4 (2013), 541-58
Broussard, Albert S., ‘Race and Oral History’ in Donald A. Ritchie, The Oxford Handbook of Oral History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 186-201
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (London: Hutchinson, 1982)
Fanon, Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968)
Christienna Fryar, Nicole Jackson, and Kennetta Hammond Perry, ‘Windrush and Britain’s Long History of Racialized Belonging’, African American Intellectual History Society, 31 July 2018, https://www.aaihs.org/windrush-and-britains-long-history-of-racialized-belonging/
Gilroy, Paul, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (London: Hutchinson, 1987)
Hall, Catherine, ‘Doing Reparatory History: Bringing “Race” and Slavery Home’, Race & Class, 60:1 (2018), 3-21
Hall, Stuart (et al.), Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (London: Macmillan, 1978)
hooks, bell, Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2013)
Malik, Kenan, The Meaning of Race: Race, History and Culture in Western Society (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
Satia, Priya, Time’s Monster: How History Makes History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020)
Spindel, Donna J., ‘Assessing Memory: Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives Reconsidered’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27:2 (1996), 247-61
Miles Rosenberg, ‘Race, Ethnicity and History’ in Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore (eds), Writing History: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010), pp. 313-29.
Caroline Bressey, ‘Forgotten Histories: Three Stories of Black Girls from Barnardo’s Victorian Archive’, Women’s History Review, 11:3 (2002), 351-74.
Deborah Cohen, ‘Who Was Who? Race and Jews in Turn-of-the-Century Britain’, Journal of British Studies, 41:4 (2002), 460-83.
Harry Garuba, ‘Race in Africa: Four Epigraphs and a Commentary’, PMLA, 123:5 (2008), 1640-8

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