Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “I Can Get No Justice”: Black Men and Colonial Race Relations on the Western Front 15
6. 2. “A Shame on Britain’s Part”: Problems of Empire in the Postwar Order 30
7. 3. Black Seamen in British Ships: The Uses of Race for British Shipowners 41
8. 4. A “Blot on Our Hospitality”: Recolonizing Black Seamen Ashore in Britain 58
9. 5. “We Shall Soon Be Having 'Rule Britannia’ Sung in Pidgin English”: The National Union of Seamen and the Uses of Race 81
10. 6. Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Nationality: The Coloured Alien Seamen Order, Policy and Protest 113
11. 7. “The Honour to Belong”: Black Workers and Interracial Settlements in Interwar Britain 135
12. 8. “Getting Out of Hand”: Black Service and Black Activism in “The People’s War” 161
13. Conclusion 178
14. Appendix One. Lascars 185
15. Appendix Two. Chronology of the Anti-Chinese Campaign 187
16. A Note on Archival Documents 188
17. Notes 189
18. Index 249