Black Star documents the vibrant Asian Youth Movements in 1970s and
80s Britain who struggled against the racism of the street and the
state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from Black
Power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers' struggles
across the globe. This book is populated by landmark events in
anti-racist struggle, from the Grunwick strike, to the Handsworth
riots, and the acquittal of the Bradford 12. Ramamurthy writes of
the evolution of a politicised Asian youth in Britain, focussing
particularly on how the struggle to make Britain 'home' led to the
conception of a broad-based identity inspiring unity amongst all
those struggling against racism: 'political blackness'. Ramamurthy
documents how by the late 1980s this broad based black identity
disintegrated as Islamophobia became a new form of racism and how
in the process the legacy of the Asian Youth Movements has been
largely hidden. Black Star retrieves this history and demonstrates
its importance for political struggles today.
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