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18 Christmas in immigrant press

  • sunangel15
  • Jan 7, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Feb 11, 2024

Some immigrants published newspapers and magazines for their own community. What did they write during Christmas?


Root, a British African magazine (December 1981)


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West Indian Digest, a British West Indian magazine (December 1984)


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Are they different from the mainstream Western media?



Just a week to Christmas! Starting from tomorrow we will read one lovely Christmas story told by immigrants each day.




Reference:

Austin, Hal, ‘Editor's Note’, Root Magazine, p.2 (December 1981)

‘Sweet & Savoury: Christmas Rum Party’, ed. by Kenneth Campbell, West Indian Digest, p.38 (December 1984)

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HI3H7: Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World - Public History Project

University of Warwick

February 2024

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