Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain by Stuart Ward;Astrid Rasch;

Author:Stuart Ward;Astrid Rasch; [Rasch, Stuart Ward and Astrid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350113824
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2019-07-04T00:00:00+00:00

The United States has been and remains the audience perhaps ripest for performances of Britain’s eternal Britishness. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, Britain emerged as a poignant, almost pathetic figure in American culture, a safe and utopian place where very little distinction between past and present could be discerned – a place untroubled, specifically, by the kind of racial strife that has torn at the fabric of modern American society … Britain for export has in fact been a whitewashed Britain, a commodified balm for a certain segment of the American public seeking relief from racial tension and ugliness in the apparently racially harmonious past (and present) of the mother country.16

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