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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815299003321

Titolo

Black British culture and society : a text-reader / / edited by Kwesi Owusu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-68414-2

0-415-17845-2

1-134-68415-0

1-280-02356-2

0-203-36064-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 561p. ) : ill., facsims., ports

Collana

Comedia

Altri autori (Persone)

OwusuKwesi

Disciplina

305.8/036/041

Soggetti

Blacks - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Blacks - Great Britain - Social conditions

Great Britain Race relations History 20th century Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter INTRODUCTION / BOB CARTER, CLIVE HARRIS AND SHIRLEY JOSHI (1993) -- part SECTION ONE: CLASSIC TEXTS FROM POSTWAR NARRATIVES / Matura MICHAEL MCMILLAN -- chapter 1 THE 1951-1955 CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT AND THE RACIALIZATION OF BLACK IMMIGRATION / BETH-SARAH WRIGHT -- chapter 2 THE OCCASION FOR SPEAKING -- chapter 3 TIMEHRI -- chapter 4 THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY IN BRITAIN -- chapter 5 DESTROY THIS TEMPLE -- chapter 6 THE LIBERATION OF THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL -- chapter 7 WHITE WOMAN LISTEN! -- chapter 8 WOMAN ABUSE IN LONDON'S BLACK COMMUNITIES -- chapter 9 BLACK HAIR/STYLE POLITICS -- chapter 10 BLACK OLD AGE -- chapter 11 FRONTLINES AND BACKYARDS -- part SECTION TWO: CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF A BLACK BRITISH CULTURAL DISCOURSE -- chapter 12 DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BLACK BRITISH ATHLETE -- chapter 13 THE FINAL PASSAGE -- chapter 14 A REPORTER AT LARGE: BLACK LONDON -- chapter 15 BIRMINGHAM: BLADES OF FRUSTRATION -- chapter 16 HOME IS ALWAYS ELSEWHERE -- chapter 17 THAT LITTLE MAGIC



TOUCH -- chapter 18 BLACK PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE -- chapter 19 A JOURNEY FROM THE COLD -- chapter 20 BLACK ART -- chapter 21 TER SPEAK IN YER MUDDER TONGUE -- chapter 22 THE LONG MARCH FROM ETHNIC ARTS TO NEW INTERNATIONALISM -- chapter 23 DUB POET LEKKA MI -- chapter 24 CONVENTIONAL FOLLY -- chapter 25 RACE, GENDER AND IQ -- chapter 26 UNDERSTANDING THE POORER HEALTH OF BLACK PEOPLE IN BRITAIN -- chapter 27 BLACK BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC POWER, MYTH OR REALITY? -- chapter 28 CARNIVAL, THE STATE AND THE BLACK MASSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- chapter 29 VIRGINITY REVAMPED -- chapter 30 MOTHERS OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA -- chapter 31 BLACK MASCULINITY -- chapter 32 MENTORING BLACK MALES IN MANCHESTER -- part SECTION THREE: CULTURAL STUDIES AND BLACK POLITICAL DEBATE -- chapter 33 OPENINGS, ABSENCES AND OMISSIONS -- chapter 34 THE FORMATION OF A DIASPORIC INTELLECTUAL -- chapter 35 THE STRUGGLE FOR A RADICAL BLACK POLITICAL CULTURE -- chapter 36 THE COMMISSION FOR RACIAL EQUALITY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE RELATIONS -- part SECTION FOUR: DIASPORA AND NEW TRAJECTORIES OF GLOBALIZATION -- chapter 37 THE BLACK ATLANTIC AS A COUNTERCULTURE OF MODERNITY -- chapter 38 JOURNEYING TO DEATH -- chapter 39 A CONVERSATION WITH AUBREY WILLIAMS -- chapter 40 WRITING HOME -- chapter 41 FOOTPRINTS OF A MOUNTAINEER -- chapter 42 HARVESTING THE FOLKLORIC INTUITION -- chapter NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.

Sommario/riassunto

From the Windrush immigration of the 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain, Black British Culture and Society examines the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain.