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In 1903 W E B Dubois argued that the problem of the twentieth century was the colour line. By that he meant global race relations.
This talk discusses the position of Wales on the colour line in the early twentieth century. It focuses on the race riots in Cardiff, Barry and Newport in June 1919 but attempts to locate them in a global context and against Welsh involvement in the empire.
Neil Evans is an honorary research fellow in history at Bangor University. He is editor (with Charlotte Williams and Paul O’Leary) of A Tolerant Nation? Revisiting Ethnic Diversity in a Devolved Wales (University of Wales Press, 2015)
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