Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985
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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Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985
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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Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985

Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985

by Rob Waters

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520293854
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/06/2018
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies , #14
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rob Waters is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Initialisms of Black Britain

Introduction: History Moving Fast
1 • Becoming Black in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power
2 • Political Blackness: Brothers and Sisters
3 • Radical Blackness and the Post-imperial State: Th e Mangrove Nine Trial
4 • Black Studies
5 • Thinking about Race in a Time of Rebellion
Epilogue: Black Futures Past

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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