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Aliens and predators: miscegenation, prostitution and racial identities in Cardiff, 1927-1947

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

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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
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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