West Indian intellectuals in Britain / edited by Bill Schwarz.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)Publisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2003Distributor: New York : Palgrave Description: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781423706489
- 9781847790767
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- 9781781700426
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- 9786610734436
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- West Indians -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
- Intellectuals -- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
- Society and social sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social groups
- Social classes
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes
- Intellectual life
- Intellectuals
- West Indians -- Intellectual life
- Great Britain
- Rückwanderer
- Kulturbeziehungen
- Literatur
- Großbritannien
- Karibik
- Englisch
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Introduction : Crossing the seas / Bill Schwarz -- What is a West Indian? / Catherine Hall -- 'To do something for the race' : Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples / David Killingray -- A race outcast from an outcast class : Claude McKay's experience and analysis of Britain / Winston James -- Jean Rhys : West Indian intellectual / Helen Carr -- Una Marson : feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom / Alison Donnell -- George Padmore / Bill Schwarz -- C.L.R. James : visions of history, visions of Britain / Stephen Howe -- George Lamming / Mary Chamberlain -- 'This is London calling the West Indies' : the BBC's Caribbean voices / Glyne Griffith -- The Caribbean artists movement / Louis James -- V.S. Naipaul / Sue Thomas -- Afterword : The predicament of history / Bill Schwarz.
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