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First published in 1972, The Forsaken Lover draws upon Chris
Searle's experience as an English teacher in a secondary school in
Tobago to focus upon the deep problems of identity encountered by
black people having to use the white man's language. He shows how
the white man's language is primarily interested in vindicating the
white man's pride and culture, and denying the black man his true
autonomy. Black children are still being educated within a cultural
context which denies them their own identity - in order to succeed
they must become as white as possible. In the Forsaken Lover (the
title comes from a poem written by a West Indian girl). Chris Seale
presents a lively and direct account of his experience. The book is
full of the children's own writing - poetry, prose, drama - and, by
referring to their words, Searle urges the need for change in
policies and attitudes of language and education. The immediate
context is Caribbean, but the issues are common to all societies
where differences of colour, class and environment exist. The book
will be of interest to students of race and ethnic relations,
education, linguistics and public policy.
Forward Groove is a powerfully eclectic survey of recorded jazz
from 1923 to 2008, seeking to show jazz as a commentary on the
social world of some of its finest musicians, from the great
migrations north to Chicago and New York in the twenties and
thirties, the campaigns against lynching and Jim Crow racism; the
Civil Rights protests and the Vietnam anti-war movement of the
fifties and sixties, to the South African anti-apartheid struggles
in the sixties and seventies. The jazz art, insists Searle, is
anything but mere entertainment: it is part of a culture of
resistance, a music striving to build a framework of social and
political justice. Searle shows that a vital dimension of jazz has
always been to create a better, more joyous world, from Louis
Armstrong's 'Coal Cart Blues', the lyrics of Bessie Smith and the
Harlem rhapsodies of Duke Ellington, to Charlie Parker's 'Now's the
Time', the new sounds of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman and the
commitment of Archie Shepp, and on to the contemporary Palestinian
cry of Gilad Atzmon's alto saxophone.
'Lightning of Your Eyes' is a selection of poems written during 40
years of teaching and travelling in Britain, Africa and the
Caribbean, celebrating language and education, cricket and
revolution.
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