Thinking Black - Britain, 1964-1985

Zusatztext "Will become a foundational text." Informationen zum Autor Rob Waters is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext " Thinking Black is the new reference text on Britain’s extended Black Power moment! but its insights extend well beyond. It places young black Britons and politicized blackness at the forefront of the political battles and social! cultural! and intellectual shifts that defined the 1960s and 1970s. The book makes a substantial contribution to postwar! post-imperial British history and to our appreciation of the interconnected political cultures of the black Atlantic."—Marc Matera! author of  Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century " Thinking Black  positions blackness and the conditions shaping the lives of those who embodied! imagined! and mobilized blackness in many forms at the center of analysis. From this vantage point! the book offers a view of contemporary British history and transnational race politics that has largely been ignored by historians."—Kennetta Hammond Perry! author of  London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons! Citizenship and the Politics of Race     "Anyone committed to decolonising contemporary British politics and society must read Rob Waters’ book. Beautifully written and powerfully argued! Waters tells the story of when ‘thinking black’ in Britain promised the birth of a new! postcolonial society. This is a history buzzing with life! with intellectual ferment! with well-known and lesser-known black activists and intellectuals transforming the very terrain of British politics and culture. The book sheds important new light on the global history of postcolonial thought and activism. And! by rightly situating black radicalism at the center of public debate in Britain in the 1970s! Waters reveals that its history is truly essential to our understanding of wider transformations in British society at this time." —Camilla Schofield! author of Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain   Zusammenfassung It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness! “thinking black!” they felt! was necessary for all who sought to build a liberated future out of Britain’s imperial past. In  Thinking Black ! Rob Waters reveals black radical Britain’s wide cultural-political formation! tracing it across new institutions of black civil society and connecting it to decolonization and black liberation across the Atlantic world. He shows how! from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s! black radicalism defined what it meant to be black and what it meant to be radical in Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Acronyms and Initialisms of Black Britain Introduction: History Moving Fast 1 • Becoming Black in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power 2 • Political Blackness: Brothers and Sisters 3 • Radical Blackness and the Post-imperial State: Th e Mangrove Nine Trial 4 • Black Studies 5 • Thinking about Race in a Time of Rebellion Epilogue: Black Futures Past Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rob Waters
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780520293847
• ISBN: 978-0-520-29384-7
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies; Berkeley Series in British Stu; Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Ethnic Studies, European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General