Oceans of Feeling: An Emotional History of Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Britain

A groundbreaking exploration of postwar Caribbean migration to Britain, Oceans of Feeling offers the first historical analysis of this defining moment in modern British history using the tools, methods, and theories of the history of emotions. Decoding the emotional experiences and expressions of Windrush-era Caribbean migrants, this book reconstructs the migrant experience by asking not just what happened, but how it felt – individually and collectively – and how these feelings shaped and ...