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Roots & Culture - Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain (Hardcover)
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Roots & Culture - Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain (Hardcover)
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How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In
the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was
no such recognised entity as "Black Britain." Yet by the 1980s, the
cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of
creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and
the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of
Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary
blend of social, political and cultural influences from the
mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of
Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie Chambers
relates how and why during these decades "West Indians" became
"Afro-Caribbeans," and how in turn "Afro-Caribbeans" became
"Black-British" - and the centrality of the arts to this important
narrative. The British Empire, migration, Rastafari, the
Anti-Apartheid struggle, reggae music, dub poetry, the ascendance
of the West Indies cricket team and the coming of Margaret Thatcher
- all of these factors, and others, have had a part to play in the
compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to
give rise to Black Britain.
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