racial otherness – Gilroy argues that the immigrant black community from the outset – constructing them as a racial ‘other’ in the predominantly white world of 1950’s Britain.

post – colonial melancholia – The publics association of these post war immigrants with substandard living conditions produced racial representation.

the story of UK race relations post W.W. 2 – Media stories regarding the black community , Gilroy suggests, intensified fears that immigrant communities might swamp white Britain.

Legacy of the Empire – He suggests that the empire, as such, represents more than the loss of sovereign power. Also a strain on the collective British identity. Empire immigrants and thier descendants, is argued to be visible representation of British power as it once was.

The Search for Albion – Albion England is nothing more than a distracting fantasy that disguises the reality of what Britain is really like – crippled by regional poverty and an ever-widening economic social divide.