Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgements xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. I Institutions of empire 27
9. 1 ‘Bloomsbury bazaar’ 29
10. 2 Anthropology at the end of empire 46
11. 3 ‘He is not a “racist” but should not be appointed director of LSE’ 65
12. II Writing identity, conflict and class 85
13. 4 Beyond experience 87
14. 5 Empire, war and class in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) 106
15. III Racial others, national memory 125
16. 6 White against empire 127
17. 7 Racism, redistribution, redress 147
18. 8 Exemplar empires 166
19. IV At home in postcolonial Britain 187
20. 9 Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction 189
21. 10 Black, beautiful and essentially British 207
22. 11 Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s 230
23. 12 Tribe Arts, Tribe Talks 248
24. Afterword 259
25. Index 267