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'Lesser Breeds': Racial Attitudes In Popular British Culture, 1890-1940 (2006)

by Michael Diamond

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'Lesser Breeds' focuses on racism as manifested in the popular culture of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, exemplified by attitudes to the Chinese, Arabs, Blacks and Jews. This compelling book investigates the manifold expressions of prejudice in the popular arts of the period.
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'Lesser Breeds': Racial Attitudes In Popular British Culture, 1890-1940
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'Lesser Breeds': Racial Attitudes In Popular British Fiction, 1890-1940
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In the half century from 1890 with which this book deals, racial differences were thought to divide human beings irrevocably. (Introduction)
It is astonishing to what extent the Chinese fired the imagination of the British public during the half century up to about 1940. (Text)
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'Lesser Breeds' focuses on racism as manifested in the popular culture of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, exemplified by attitudes to the Chinese, Arabs, Blacks and Jews. This compelling book investigates the manifold expressions of prejudice in the popular arts of the period.
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