Description
Book SynopsisIt was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start thinking black. As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, thinking black, they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a liberated future out of Britain's imperial past.InThinking Black, Rob Waters reveals black radical Britain's wide cultural-political formation, tracing it across new institutions of black civil society and connecting it to decolonization and black liberation across the Atlantic world. He shows how, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, black radicalism defined what it meant to be black and what it meant to be radical in Britain.
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Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Initialisms of Black Britain
Introduction: History Moving Fast
1 • Becoming Black in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power
2 • Political Blackness: Brothers and Sisters
3 • Radical Blackness and the Post-imperial State: Th e Mangrove Nine Trial
4 • Black Studies
5 • Thinking about Race in a Time of Rebellion
Epilogue: Black Futures Past
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
