Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Book

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: charting the genealogy of Black British cultural studies	1
Sect. 1	Classic Texts from Postwar Narratives	19
1	The 1951-1955 Conservative government and the racialization of Black immigration	21
2	The occasion for speaking	37
3	Timehri	43
4	The Caribbean community in Britain	49
5	Destroy this temple	58
6	The liberation of the Black intellectual	70
7	White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood	82
8	Woman abuse in London's Black communities	89
9	Black hair/style politics	111
10	Black old age ... the diaspora of the senses?	122
11	Frontlines and backyards: the terms of change	127
Sect. 2	Critical Elements of a Black British Cultural Discourse	131
12	Double consciousness and the Black British athlete	133
13	The Final Passage: an interview with writer Caryl Phillips	157
14	A reporter at large: Black London	169
15	Birmingham: blades of frustration	181
16	Home is always elsewhere: individual and communal regenerative capacities of loss	195
17	That little magic touch: the headtie and issues around Black British women's identity	207
18	Black photographic practice: an interview with Faisal Abdu' Allah	220
19	A journey from the cold: rethinking Black film-making in Britain	230
20	Black art: a discussion with Eddie Chambers	239
21	Ter speak in yer mudder tongue: an interview with playwright Mustapha Matura	255
22	The long march from 'ethnic arts' to 'new internationalism'	265
23	Dub poet lekka mi: an exploration of performance poetry, power and identity politics in Black Britain	271
24	Conventional folly: a discussion of English classical theatre	289
25	Race, gender and IQ: the social consequence of a pseudo-scientific discourse	295
26	Understanding the poorer health of Black people in Britain: revisiting the class and racialization debates	311
27	Black Britain's economic power, myth or reality?: an empirical review and analysis of the economic reality of Black Britain	324
28	Carnival, the state and the Black masses in the United Kingdom	332
29	Virginity revamped: representations of female sexuality in the lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks	347
30	Mothers of Africa and the diaspora: shared maternal values among Black women	358
31	Black masculinity	373
32	Mentoring Black males in Manchester: responding to the crisis in education and social alienation	385
Sect. 3	Cultural Studies and Black Political Debate	393
33	Openings, absences and omissions: aspects of the treatment of 'race', culture and ethnicity in British cultural studies	395
34	The formation of a diasporic intellectual: an interview with Stuart Hall	405
35	The struggle for a radical Black political culture: an interview with A. Sivanandan	416
36	The Commission for Racial Equality and the politics of race relations: an interview with chairman Sir Herman Ouseley	425
Sect. 4	Diaspora and New Trajectories of Globalization	437
37	The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity	439
38	Journeying to death: Gilroy's Black Atlantic	453
39	A conversation with Aubrey Williams	465
40	Writing home: reconfiguring the (English)-African diaspora	489
41	Footprints of a mountaineer: Uzo Egonu and the Black redefinition of modernism	499
42	Harvesting the folkloric intuition: Ben Okri's The Famished Road	519
	Notes on contributors	546
	Index	551