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- Title
Respectability and race between the suburb and the city: an argument about the making of 'inner-city' London.
- Authors
Waters, Rob
- Abstract
This article concentrates on the development of an inner-city imaginary, and a linked suburban imaginary, in the era of post-war reconstruction and post-colonial migration. It argues that these two historical processes – reconstruction and migration – need to be seen as interlinked phenomena, which bound the histories of race and class together. First, it proposes that understanding how the inner city developed and was lived as a structure of feeling requires attending to its meaning both among those who peopled its often-nebulous borders, and among those who escaped it but nonetheless measured their escape by it. Second, it proposes that understanding the popular force of inner city and suburb as imaginative spaces means recognizing how they became crucial landscapes in a revived culture of respectability, which in the second half of the twentieth century became a racialized culture. This was the other migration that defined what the inner city meant.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); SUBURBS; INNER cities; COMMON decency; POSTWAR reconstruction; ARGUMENT; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Urban History, 2023, Vol 50, Issue 2, p214
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926821000730