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Late-Modern Hipsters - Before the Windrush

Laurie Taylor explores race relations in 20th-century Liverpool. Also, the phenomenon of the late modern 'hipster'.

Before the Windrush - Laurie Taylor talks to John Belchem, Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, about his study of race relations in 20th century Liverpool. Long before the arrival of the Empire Windrush after the Second World War, the city was already a teeming mix of different nationalities and races. Black Liverpudlians pioneered mixed marriages and parentage but they also experienced rejection and discrimination. Nisha Katona, city born resident and trustee of National Museums Liverpool, joins the debate.

Also, Bjorn Andersen, a sociologist at the University of Gothenburg, discusses the phenomenon of the late modern 'hipster', the young bohemian of the cosmopolitan city.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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John Belchem

Emeritus Professor of History, University of Liverpool


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Before the Windrush: Race relations in 20th century Liverpool
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10: 1781380007
ISBN-13: 978-1781380000

Nisha Katona

Barister and a trustee of National Museums Liverpool


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Bj酶rn Schiermer Andersen

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen


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Abstract: Acta Sociologica May 2014 vol. 57 no. 2 167-181
doi: 10.1177/0001699313498263

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