Introduction: why imperialism, race and resistance? 1. Africa after the First World War: race and imperialism redefined? -- West Africa. 2. Britain's imperial hinterland: colonialism in West Africa. 3. Expatriate society: race, gender and the culture of imperialism. 4. 'Whose dream was it anyway?' Anti-colonial protest in West Africa, 1929-45 -- South Africa. 5. Forging the racist state: imperialism, race and labour in Britain's 'white dominion'. 6. 'Knocking on the white man's door': repression and resistance. 7. 'Fighting for the underdog': British liberals and the South African 'native question' -- Britain. 8. Into the heart of empire: black Britain. 9. Into the heart of empire: the 'race problem'. 10. The winds of change: towards a new imperialism in Africa? -- Retrospective: Africa and the African diaspora in a 'post-imperial' world