Blackening Britain - Caribbean Radicalism From Windrush to Decolonization

Blackening Britain explores the key moments, figures, and patterns of radical black political development among Caribbean and African migrants in Britain after World War II. Ultimately, the move away from British identity and a radical, revolutionary consciousness rooted in th...

List of contents

Introduction More English than the English?
Claims-making and Contestations in Britain and Across Empire

Chapter 1. From Small Islands to a Small Island
The Caribbean Background and the Interwar Migrants

Chapter 2. The 5^th Pan-African Congress, Manchester 1945
Black Internationalism in the Context of Britain

Chapter 3. Existentialists Abroad
Legacies of Caribbean Intellectuals in Britain
After 1948: The British Nationality Act and the Multilayered Nature of Caribbean Migration
British Social Science Responses and Student Negotiations

Chapter 4. "We're here, and we're here in a big way": West Indians Respond to the Notting Hill Race Riots
Racial Violence in the Metropole and the Surge of Political Blackness

Chapter 5. Diasporic Artist-Activists and Imperial Reckoning
Academic and Grassroots Responses to Notting Hill

Chapter 6. British Caribbean Independence and The 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act
Caribbean Migrants and the Making of a New Britain

Chapter 7. Black Publishers and Revolutionary Epistemologies
Radical Racial Epistemology and Black Post-Nationalism

Conclusion
"Rivers of Blood" and Black Liberation Dreams

Coda [crisis]: Windrush at 70 and the Hostile Environment

About the author

James Cantres is an Assistant Professor in Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY where he specializes in migration, black internationalism, radical politics, cultural formations, and Africana epistemologies.

Product details

• Authors: James G. Cantres
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781538143544
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4354-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Global Critical Caribbean Thou; Global Critical Caribbean Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Relating to Black British Caribbean people