Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain: 15 (Berkeley Series in British Studies)

by Connell (Author)

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  Paperback
  2019

  $32.92

  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, residents looked out across the black Atlantic, toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures to navigate the inequalities of their locale. For both the Windrush generation and their British-born children, this diasporic inheritance became a core cultural and political influence on life in Handsworth. Through rich case studies, including photographic representations of the neighborhood, Black Handsworth goes inside the pubs, churches, political organizations, domestic spaces, and social clubs to explore the experiences of the area and everyday life. The result is a compelling and sophisticated study of black globality in the making of post-colonial Britain.