Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain (Volume 15) (Berkeley Series in British Studies)

Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain (Volume 15) (Berkeley Series in British Studies)In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British born

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PUBLISHER: Nancy Paulsen Books

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story

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The compelling teen nonfiction account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America