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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. From the Inside Flap “Black Handsworth is a superbly executed explanation of the sociocultural and political dynamics of the coalescence of race in Thatcher’s Britain. Kieran Connell makes a highly original contribution to the fields of contemporary social and

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Author

Kieran Connell

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520300668

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology