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The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with
its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this
distinctive and lively collection. The contributors to "Inside
Babylon" show how employers and police, psychiatrists and welfare
services, help to channel black people into residential and
occupational ghettoes.
Clive Harris, Bob Carter and Shirley Joshi analyse the economic
destiny of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain. Going beyond the familiar
prisms of race relations and reductionist class analysis they
illuminate the radicalizing dynamic of British capitalism in the
postwar period. Errol Francis provides a shocking account of the
experience of black people at the hands of psychiatrists in
Britain. Cecil Gutzmore finds the Notting Hill carnival to be a
litmus test of racist formations in both the media and the state,
as well as evidence of the resilience of the black community. Amina
Mama and Claudette Williams explore the position of women in black
communities while Gail Lewis focuses on their characteristic
patterns of employment. In a powerful concluding essay Winston
James charts the unfolding of a new Afro-Caribbean identity in
Britain and debunks the notion that racist structures by themselves
create a homogeneous black community.
"Inside Babylon" is a radical and timely indictment which moves
beyond over-simplified and misleading stereotypes to identify and
explore the impressive struggles of black people of Britain.
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