Title: Thinking Black : Britain, 1964-1985 /
Authors: Waters, Rob, 1985-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Black people Great Britain History; Radicalism Great Britain History; Black people Great Britain Politics and government; Blacks; Blacks Politics and government; Race relations; Radicalism; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.; Great Britain Race relations History; Great Britain
Abstract: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Introduction : history moving fast -- Becoming black in the era of civil rights and black power -- Political blackness : brothers and sisters -- Radical blackness and the post-imperial state : the Mangrove Nine trial -- Black studies -- Thinking about race in the time of rebellion -- Epilogue : black futures past.