1. Cosmopolitanism, everyday culture and structures of feeling : the intellectual framework of the book -- 2. The allure of difference: Selfridges, the Russian ballet and the tango -- 3. 'The big shop controversy': ideological communities and the Chesterton-Selfridge dispute -- 4. The unconscious and others: inclusivity, Jews and the eroticisation of difference -- 5. White women and black men : the Negro as signifier of modernity in wartime Britain -- 6. Thinking internationally, thinking sexually: race in postwar fiction, film and social science -- 7. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed: romance, race and the reconfiguration of the nation -- 8. A love song to our mongrel selves: cosmopolitan habitus and the ordinariness of difference.