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"Colonization in Reverse", in Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain by Ashley Dawson, is made available by Knowledge Unlatched under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
by Ashley Dawson
The iconic image of post-1945 migration to Britain unwinds on a grainy old Pathé newsreel. Standing on the wooden deck of a battered troop carrier named the Empire Windrush as it docks at Tilbury on 21 June 1948, the calypso singer Lord Kitchener offers up a lyrical performance of a song composed specially for the occasion.
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