Description
Book SynopsisA biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster.
Trade Review'An excellent book, a very readable biography of a fascinating woman who led a varied and in many ways an exciting life. Thoroughly researched and well documented, this is a major event in the field of Caribbean cultural studies.' Dr Stewart Brown, University of Birmingham
Table of ContentsPreface
1 Parson’s Baby
2 Hampton
3 To Kingston
4 The Cosmopolitan
5 Heights and Depths
6 The Arrivant
7 Identity Politics: 1930s style
8 The Autobiography of a Brown Girl
9 A man who did much for his country and another who did much for his race
10 Fascism and Anti-fascism
11 A place in Politics
12 The Moth and the Star
13 A Call to Downing Street
14 To the BBC
15 A Caribbean Voice
16 Silenced and Depressed
17 Pioneering People
18 What’s wrong with Jamaica
19 America
20 Independence
21 Haifa and London Revisited
22 Epilogue
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