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Renegade - The Life and Times of Darcus Howe (Paperback)
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Born in Trinidad during the dying days of British colonialism,
Darcus Howe has become an uncompromising champion of racial
justice. The book examines how Howe's unique political outlook was
inspired by the example of his friend and mentor C.L.R. James, and
forged in the heat of the American civil rights movement, as well
as Trinidad's Black Power Revolution. The book sheds new light on
Howe's leading role in the defining struggles in Britain against
institutional racism in the police, the courts and the media. It
focuses on his part as a defendant in the trial of the Mangrove
Nine, the high point of Black Power in Britain; his role in
conceiving and organizing the Black People's Day of Action, the
largest ever demonstration by the black community in Britain; and
his later work as one of a prominent journalist and political
commentator Bloomsbury sold the film rights last year to the UK
production company that made the gay rights movie "Pride". The
authors are also acting as consultants for a tv miniseries called
Guerrilla about the post-war Black Rights Movement in Britain. Due
for broadcast in February 2017 it stars Idris Elba. Robin Bunce is
Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College, Cambridge,
and a Bye-Fellow in History at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He
is the author of a study of Thomas Hobbes for Continuum's Major
Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series (2009) and he has
published several books on civil rights in America for the schools
market. He is also an editor of Twentieth Century History Review.
Paul Field worked as a journalist for many years, specialising in
issues of policing, asylum and institutional racism, before
becoming a lawyer specialising in the fields of discrimination and
employment Both Robin Bunce and Paul Field were historical advisors
on the 5 star BBC series Mangrove (2020), directed by Oscar winner
Steve McQueen.
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