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It’s A London Thing: Bringing the “Caribbean” to the UK

Submitted by Deonte Harris on February 3, 2014 - 12:32pm

The post-World War II mass migration of communities from the Caribbean to England has had a tremendous impact on the cultural landscape of the United Kingdom. In my initial attempts to begin constructing an understanding of this impact, the perception that “tradition is not a static construct” and that “boundaries . . .

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