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Book SynopsisShows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the stories of many famous historical figures and presenting their quests for personal, professional, and political recognition against the backdrop of a declining British Empire.
Trade Review"An important book." -- Marika Sherwood JISCMail "A tremendous contribution and very much to be welcomed." Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal "[Matera] successfully argues that these clubs helped to foment in their patrons a transformation from a narrow black nationalism into an inherently more progressive black internationalism." The Times Literary Supplement "[A] towering achievement. Black London is gratifying both for its careful attention to detail and its nuanced analysis of the political and social lives of the black intellectuals who lived in this mid-twentieth-century world... the resulting portrait is glorious." H-Net
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Imperial and Atlantic Horizons of Black London 1. Afro-metropolis: Black Political and Cultural Associations in Interwar London 2. Black Internationalism and Empire in the 1930s 3. Black Feminist Internationalists 4. Sounds of Black London 5. Black Masculinity and Interracial Sex at the Heart of the Empire 6. Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain 7. Pan-Africa in London, Empire Films, and the Imperial Imagination Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
