How far do you agree that attitudes towards immigrants changed in the years 1945-79?

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How far do you agree that attitudes towards immigrants changed in the years 1945-79?
- Thesis: Attitudes towards immigrants changed significantly 1945-79
  - Social attitudes
    - Research into the 'colour problem'
    - No support for Oswald Mosely's 1959 campaign against immigration
  - Government legislation
    - Less people viewed the Colonies as inferiors - more as war allies (revocation of the Alien Orders Act in 1942)
      - Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd was keen to uphold the international prestige of British liberalism
    - 27,000 Ugandan Asians
    - 1965/8 Race Relations Acts (Wilson) banned descriminatoin/hatred
      - Not able to complain about the police
        1976 Race Relation Act toughened racial discrimination/victimisation, set up CORE (1976)
  - Integration
    - Cuisine was increasingly influenced by immigrants (South Asia/ Italy/ China)
    - Sport/ popular culture
    - Inter-Departmental Committee on Colonial People in the UK set up to investigate how to promote racial integration locally/ 'disperse' immigrants - didn't have expertise
- Antithesis: Attitudes towards immigrants stagnated 1945-79
  - Socially
    - Chain migration prevented integration (e.g. Nevisians in Leicester)
    - Low levels of interracial marriage
    - No British converts to new religions
    - Racism persisted into the 1970s
      - Black and White Minstrel Show -1988
      - Peter Griffith's 1973 West Bromwich campaign
      - National Front (1967)
        Caused further toughest immigration laws - alienation/anger
        
        Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech (1968) - 75% agreed
    - WW2 didn't impact attitudes
    - 1958 Notting Hill Riots - stabbings, international coverage
      - Some teddy boys were racist
        Influenced by stories of violence in Africa (e.g. Mau Mau uprising in Kenya)/ NY gangs
        Overwhelmingly young men - sensationalised reports in the media
        
        'taking their women'
      - Exposed failings of local councils/ 4,000 Caribbeans returned
  - Politically
    - nearly 3/4ths of the public supported 1962 controls on immigration
    - 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Grandfather clause was racist
  - Economically
    - Lack of integration in housing
      - 'White flight'/ 'segregation'
      - Fears of American poor black ghettos/ white suburbs
        TUs complained about immigrants taking jobs for lower wages
      - 'No blacks'/'No coloureds'
      - overcrowded, poor quality reinforced stereotypes
- Introduction
  - Limited until the Notting Hill race riots (1958)
- Conclusion
  - Unclear how far recently arrived racial minorities would integrate

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