History A-Level
Race Relations
What Race Relations means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Race Relations
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Reference: AQA
Complex issues arising as New Commonwealth migrants frequently encountered discrimination in housing and employment, foreshadowing later riots.
Topics that use Race Relations
- 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 – 'Never had it so good'? 1951–1957 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Affluence and Consumerism
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
- Cold War Anxieties
- Cultural Shifts
- Domestic reform
- Gender Roles
- New Commonwealth Migrants
- Party divisions
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