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'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the
London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the
worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the
violent currents of racism—some seen, many disavowed. But the
operations of race, the putting-in-place of its hierarchies, the
destructions of the self that its logics entailed, exceeded only
expressions of violence and hatred. It was in 'affection', too,
that colonialism's racial visions operated. It was not only among
the illiberals, but among the liberals, that colonization continued
its hold on metropolitan culture. This was colonization, as Lamming
would also put it, by humanity. Colonized by Humanity is a study of
racial liberalism at the end of empire. It uncovers the projects to
cultivate racial integration developed in the two decades between
the arrival of the Empire Windrush and the passage of the first
Race Relations Act. These were the years that integrationism took
hold as a social phenomenon, its reflexes lodged deep in an English
culture that took the idea of 'tolerance' as its watchword. It was
a culture that re-inscribed race even as it aimed at overcoming its
discriminations. Caribbean London is at the heart of this story. It
was in the capital that integration projects multiplied fastest,
and it was the multicultural capital that provided integrationism's
imaginative geographies. Viewing integrationism through the eyes of
Caribbean Londoners, Colonized by Humanity allows us to see it as
they did, with its colonial and racial dynamics up close.
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that
Britons needed to start "thinking black." As state and society
consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, "thinking
black," they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a
liberated future out of Britain's imperial past.In Thinking Black,
Rob Waters reveals black radical Britain's wide cultural-political
formation, tracing it across new institutions of black civil
society and connecting it to decolonization and black liberation
across the Atlantic world. He shows how, from the mid-1960s to the
mid-1980s, black radicalism defined what it meant to be black and
what it meant to be radical in Britain.
A touring guide to the historic beach town of Lewes, Delaware, 'the
first city in the first state'. The National Historic Trust has
designated Lewes one of its 'Dozen Distinctive Destinations' in the
United States. Contents include walking and bicycle tours, shopping
guide, restaurant guide, and accommodations. Also included are
sections about local history, gardens, architecture and the ocean.
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that
Britons needed to start "thinking black." As state and society
consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, "thinking
black," they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a
liberated future out of Britain's imperial past.In Thinking Black,
Rob Waters reveals black radical Britain's wide cultural-political
formation, tracing it across new institutions of black civil
society and connecting it to decolonization and black liberation
across the Atlantic world. He shows how, from the mid-1960s to the
mid-1980s, black radicalism defined what it meant to be black and
what it meant to be radical in Britain.
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