Jenkins, Simon 2014. Aliens and predators: miscegenation, prostitution and racial identities in Cardiff, 1927-1947. Cultural and Social History 11 (4) , pp. 575-596. 10.2752/147800414X14056862572140 |
Abstract
This article examines the intersections of prostitution and race in Cardiff, and shows that racialized concepts of predatory sexuality framed ideas of prostitution in twentieth-century British ports. These were linked to wider concerns over miscegenation in the dockside district of Butetown, a space historically linked to prostitution and seen as distinctly ‘foreign’ and ‘contagious' by the interwar years. These debates were informed by local demographics and geographies, and were dominated by continuities in nineteenth-century ideas over race and sex. This evidence demonstrates the ongoing fractured development of sexual knowledge and ideas of multiculturalism in twentieth-century Britain.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | History, Archaeology and Religion |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing / SAGE Publications (UK and US) |
ISSN: | 1478-0038 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2023 13:38 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83505 |
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