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This volume looks at Britain since 1948 - the year when the Empire Windrush brought a group of 492 hopeful Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom. "Post-war Britain" may still be the most common label attached to studies in contemporary British history, but "post-Windrush Britain" has an explanatory power which is equally useful.
List of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Part I - Windrush and Powell: context, reaction, testimony
Chapter 1 2048: Europe One Hundred Years on from Windrush - Trevor Phillips OBE
Chapter 2 The Children of the Windrush Generation: An Oral History Study - Sharon Baptiste
Chapter 3 The Stars Campaign for Interracial Friendship and the Notting Hill Riots of 1958 - Rick Blackman
Chapter 4 Many Rivers to Cross: The Legacy of Enoch Powell in Wolverhampton - Patrick Vernon OBE
Chapter 5 Enoch Powell, the Anglosphere, and the roots of Brexit - David Shiels
Chapter 6 Citizen Backlash Correspondence: Letters to Enoch Powell after "Rivers of Blood" - Neal Allen
Part II - Caribbean legacies: Culture in Britain since Windrush
Chapter 7 Producing a (cultural) identity: nation and immigration in Stuart Hall’s writing - Carlos Navarro González
Chapter 8 "There soon may not be any West Indian left who made the passage to England": Caryl Phillips and the Windrush Years - Josiane Ranguin
Chapter 9 Letters and Chronicles from the Windrush Generation: Epistolary Sorrow, Epistolary Joy - Judith Misrahi-Barak
Chapter 10 "Don’t Call Us Immigrants": The Musical and Political Legacy of Reggae in Britain - David Bousquet
Chapter 11 Forever Other? Black Britons on Screen (1959-2016) - Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet
Chapter 12 The Windrush Generation in the Picture: Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Dennis Morris and Charlie Phillips - Kerry-Jane Wallart
Chapter 13 Chris Hannan’s What Shadows: What drama? A conversation with the nation - Pascal Cudicio
Chapter 14 In Conversation with Chris Hannan, author of What Shadows
Part III - Post-war British immigration policy in context: two international comparisons
Chapter 15 Framing and Legitimising Discriminatory Immigration Policies: A Cross-Channel Survey (1948-1970) - Vincent Latour and Catherine Puzzo
Chapter 16 The Empire Windrush Migration in international context: Debates about Race and Colour of Skin in British Canada, 1900s-1960s - Dirk Hoerder
Index
About the author
Trevor Harris is Professor of British Studies at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne.
Summary
This volume looks at Britain since 1948 – the year when the Empire Windrush brought a group of 492 hopeful Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom. "Post-war Britain" may still be the most common label attached to studies in contemporary British history, but "post-Windrush Britain" has an explanatory power which is equally useful.
