Mapping the Notting Hill Riots
Racism and the Streets of Post-war Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Hilliard (0000-0001-8216-1382, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-68 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbac012 |
| OpenAlex | W4213422369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article offers a new interpretation of the 1958 race riots in west London. It uses arrest data to map where the violence occurred and where the rioters lived. Few of the white people arrested lived alongside black people or competed with them for housing. The riots were not a straightforward response to privation. Rather, they were a reassertion of an implicitly but powerfully racialized conception of urban community in which street life was symbolically potent. Anti-immigration politicians would exploit the idea of familiar streets 'lost' to demographic change, beginning with Oswald Mosley the year after the riots
Archaeology · Criminology · Immigration · Interpretation (philosophy) · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |