Writing Black Britain, 1948-98 An

The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators.

James Proctor is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Birmingham.

List of illustrations

x

Acknowledgements

xi

Sources and copyright acknowledgements

xii

General introduction: `1948'/`1998' - periodising postwar black Britain

1

(12)

Part One: 1948 to late 1960s

Introduction

13

(3)

Literatures

Louise Bennett

Colonisation in Reverse

16

(1)

De Victory Parade

17

(2)

Lord Kitchener

London Is the Place for Me

19

(1)

My Landlady's Too Rude

20

(1)

James Berry

Migrant in London

20

(1)

Roomseeker in London

21

(1)

Nissim Ezekiel

London

21

(2)

Wole Soyinka

Two in London

23

(3)

Mervyn Morris

Letter from England

26

(1)

B. Parthasarathy

A Northern City

27

(1)

Samuel Selvon

Finding Piccadilly Circus

27

(3)

Eldorado, West One

30

(4)

George Lamming

Swans

34

(2)

The Emigrants

36

(4)

Donald Hinds

Busman's Blues

40

(5)

E.R. Braithwaite

To Sir, with Love

45

(4)

G.V. Desani

All About H. Hatterr

49

(3)

Kamau Brathwaite

The Emigrants [part I]

52

(2)

V.S. Naipaul

The Middle Passage

54

(3)

Essays and documents

George Lamming

Journey to an Expectation

57

(3)

C.L.R. James

Africans and Afro-Caribbeans: A Personal View

60

(3)

Learie Constantine

Colour Bar

63

(5)

Claudia Jones

The Caribbean Community in Britain

68

(3)

Paul Gilroy

Blacks and Crime in Postwar Britain

71

(7)

Barnor Hesse

Black to Front and Black Again

78

(4)

Stuart Hall

Reconstruction Work: Images of Postwar Black Settlement

82

(13)

Part Two: late 1960s to mid- 1980s

Introduction

95

(3)

Literatures

Jimi Rand

Nock Nock Oo Nock E Nock

98

(1)

Andrew Salkey

Notting Hill Carnival, 1975

99

(1)

Marsha Prescod

May the Force Be With You

100

(1)

Valerie Bloom

Yuh Hear Bout?

101

(1)

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Five Nights of Bleeding

102

(2)

Dread Beat an Blood

104

(1)

Wat About di Workin Class

105

(1)

Benjamin Zephaniah

Call It What Yu Like

106

(3)

E.A. Markham

A Mugger's Game

109

(1)

Crossing the Fence

109

(1)

Grace Nichols

Skanking Englishman between Trains

110

(1)

Two Old Black Men on a Leicester Square Park Bench

111

(1)

The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping

112

(1)

Shiva Naipaul

Living in Earls Court

113

(8)

Farrukh Dhondy

Iqbal Cafe

121

(11)

Beryl Gilroy

Black Teacher

132

(7)

Buchi Emecheta

In the Ditch

139

(4)

Wilson Harris

Black Marsden

143

(6)

Essays and documents

A. Sivanandan

Britain's Gulags

149

(5)

Kwesi Owusu

Notting Hill Carnival: `De Road is de Stage de Stage is de Road'

154

(7)

Dick Hebdige

Reggae, Rastas and Rudies

161

(6)

Kamau Brathwaite

The Caribbean Artists Movement

167

(3)

Stuart Hall, C. Critcher, T. Jefferson, J. Clarke and B. Roberts

Policing the Crisis

170

(7)

Hazel Carby

White Woman Listen!

177

(7)

Amrit Wilson

It's Not Like Asian Ladies to Answer Back

184

(9)

Part Three; mid- 1980s to late 1990s

Introduction

193

(3)

Literatures

Caryl Phillips

Coming Over

196

(4)

Fred D'Aguiar

Home

200

(1)

Domestic Flight

201

(1)

Jackie Kay

So You Think I Am a Mule?

202

(2)

In My Country

204

(1)

Moniza Alvi

Arrival 1946

204

(1)

Merle Collins

Visiting Yorkshire - Again

204

(2)

When Britain Had its GREAT

206

(1)

David Dabydeen

London Taxi Driver

207

(1)

Coolie Odyssey

208

(4)

Amryl Johnson

Long Road to Nowhere

212

(7)

Jean Binta Breeze

Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem)

219

(3)

Ben Okri

A Hidden History

222

(6)

Hanif Kureishi

We're Not Jews

228

(8)

Victor Headley

Yardie

236

(4)

Rukshana Ahmad

Cassandra and the Viaduct

240

(12)

Meera Syal

Finding My Voice

252

(4)

John Agard

Windrush Welcome

256

(1)

Uncle Mo Mo Steps Out

257

(1)

Remember the Ship

258

(1)

Benjamin Zephaniah

What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us

259

(2)

Essays and documents

Salman Rushdie, Stuart Hall and Darcus Howe

The Handsworth Songs Letters

261

(4)

Stuart Hall

New Ethnicities

265

(10)

Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer

De Margin and de Centre

275

(10)

Kobena Mercer

Back to my Routes: A Postscript to the 1980s

285

(8)

Pratibha Parmar

Black Feminism: The Politics of Articulation

293

(7)

Homi Bhabha

How Newness Enters the World: Postmodern Space, Postcolonial Times and the Trials of Cultural Translation

300

(7)

Paul Gilroy

Cruciality and the Frog's Perspective: Difficulties for the Black Arts Movement in Britain

307

(14)

Chronology

321

(3)

Bibliography

324

(9)

Index

333

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