West Indian intellectuals in Britain /

West Indian intellectuals in Britain / edited by Bill Schwarz. - 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) - - Studies in imperialism . - Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Crossing the seas / What is a West Indian? / 'To do something for the race' : Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples / A race outcast from an outcast class : Claude McKay's experience and analysis of Britain / Jean Rhys : West Indian intellectual / Una Marson : feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom / George Padmore / C.L.R. James : visions of history, visions of Britain / George Lamming / 'This is London calling the West Indies' : the BBC's Caribbean voices / The Caribbean artists movement / V.S. Naipaul / Afterword : The predicament of history / Bill Schwarz -- Catherine Hall -- David Killingray -- Winston James -- Helen Carr -- Alison Donnell -- Bill Schwarz -- Stephen Howe -- Mary Chamberlain -- Glyne Griffith -- Louis James -- Sue Thomas -- Bill Schwarz.

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This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain.


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2010.


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West Indians--Intellectual life.--Great Britain
Intellectuals--Great Britain.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Social groups.
Social classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals.
West Indians--Intellectual life.
Rückwanderer
Kulturbeziehungen
Literatur


Great Britain--Intellectual life.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Karibik
Englisch.

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Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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