Black Handsworth - Race in 1980s Britain

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-30066-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 240 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Berkeley Series in British Studies

In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British-born children, this diasporic inheritance became a core influence on cultural and political life. Through rich case studies, including photographic representations of the neighborhood, Black Handsworth takes readers inside pubs, churches, political organizations, domestic spaces, and social clubs to shed light on the experiences and everyday lives of black residents during this time. The result is a compelling and sophisticated study of black globality in the making of post-colonial Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connell, Kieran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Introduction: Black Handsworth
1. Shades of Black: Political and Community Groups
2. Visualizing Handsworth: Th e Politics of Representation
3. Dread Culture: Africa in Handsworth
4. Leisure and Sociability: Th e Black Everyday Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kieran Connell is Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen’s University Belfast.