‘British Subjects’, Caribbean Diaspora and ‘Black Britons’
Activist Darcus Howe addresses 'Anti-Anti Mugging March' demonstrators from the roof of a public toilet block at Clifton Rise, Lewisham, London. 13th August 1977.
© Syd Shelton / Autograph Media
The collections hold a body of works on the Caribbean presence in Britain. Highlights include materials that focus on the arrival and settlement of the 'Windrush Generation', the diasporic culture building of British-Caribbean communities and the racialised experiences of 2nd and 3rd generation Black Britons. These range from independently published activist monographs, to poetry and sociological studies.
Key catalogue subject themes:
Caribbean Area Emigration And Immigration ; Blacks Great Britain History 20th Century ; West Indians In Great Britain ; Blacks Great Britain Politics And Government ; West Indians Great Britain Social Conditions
Arrivals
- Len Garrison 1994 West Indian immigration and settlement in Nottingham [Caribbean Societies: postgraduate seminar papers ] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2152741~S4
- Windrush songs / James Berry. [Poetry] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3053740~S24
- Pure running, a life story / Louise Shore 1982 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3058954~S4
- Disappointed guests : essays by African, Asian, and West Indian students / Edited by Henri Tajfel and John L. Dawson. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2387867~S24
- Inglan is a bitch / Linton Kwesi Johnson. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1203998~S24
- Other works by LKJ [4 items ] - dub poetry http://bit.ly/2h0EooO
- James Berry [6 items] - poetry http://bit.ly/2tH8PXf
Diasporic Life
- Works by Samuel Selvon [19 titles] – diasporic Trinidadian novelist and playwright in post-WWII London http://bit.ly/2uW954d
- Works by James Berry [ 6 titles ] - diasporic Jamaican poet http://bit.ly/2tH8PXf
- [Unique to senate house] Caribbean Migration and The Black Diaspora: A Comparative Perspective, Postgraduate Seminar Papers, University Of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies [17 seminar papers] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2281552~S24
- Going where the work is / Isaac Gordon. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2946676~S4
- Endless pressure: a study of West Indian life-styles in Bristol http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3326614~S4
- Shattering illusions: West Indians in British politics 1986 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3281891~S4
- Language in a black community / Viv Edwards. 1986 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2961978~S4
- British Black English / David Sutcliffe. 1982 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1104375~S4
- A light in the dark tunnel: ten years of West Indian concern and Caribbean House / by Ashton Gibson with Charles Lewis; foreword by Lord Pitt 1985 [on social work with British Caribbean communities] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3273042~S4
Becoming ‘Black Britons’ and ‘Race Relations’
The Scarman report was commissioned by the UK Government following the 1981 Brixton riots. Lord Scarman was appointed on 14 April 1981 (two days after the rioting ended) to hold the enquiry into the riots 'to inquire urgently into the serious disorder in Brixton on 10–12 April 1981 and to report, with the power to make recommendations'.
- Scraman Archival http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchive&search=priref=110007224
- ‘The papers comprise of transcripts from the public hearings on the examination of the events and their immediate causes and written submissions on the underlying social conditions’ http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/MS897.pdf
For a wealth of contemporary and up to date research on British race relations see http://www.irr.org.uk/
- Rudy Narayan 1977 Black England: a reply to Enoch Powell http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3266494~S4
- Rudy Narayan 1976. Black community on trial http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2950209~S4
- Talking blues : the black community speaks about its relationship with the police [Handsworth, Birmingham] edited by Derek Bishton and Brian Homer. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3078940~S41978
- Lord Gifford, Q.C., Wally Brown, Ruth Bundey 1989 Loosen the shackles: first report of the Liverpool 8 Inquiry into race relations in Liverpool http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2961989~S4
- Colour in Britain / by James Wickenden. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3380540~S4
- Darcus Howe on black sections in the Labour Party. London, Eng. : Race Today Publications, 1985. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3141589~S4
- I think of my mother : notes on the life and times of Claudia Jones / by Buzz Johnson. 1985 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3325793~S4
- Southall, 23 April 1979 : the report of the Unofficial Committee of Enquiry / National Council for Civil Liberties, 1980 [on the Southall uprising of 1979] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3332920~S4
- The Blair Peach case : licence to kill / by David Ransom [Heisler Archive] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3074636~S4
- The art of being black : the creation of black British youth identities / Claire E. Alexander. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1029536~S24
- Shades of black : assembling black arts in 1980s Britain / edited by David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce. http://Shades of black : assembling black arts in 1980s Britain / edited by David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce.
- Twenty-first-century "black" British writers / edited by R. Victoria Arana. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3121845~S24
- Black and Asian theatre in Britain : a history / Colin Chambers. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3212134~S24
- Staging black feminisms : identity, politics, performance / Lynette Goddard. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3021315~S24
- Staging New Britain : aspects of Black and South Asian British theatre practice / Geoffrey V. Davis and Anne Fuchs (eds.). http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2963069~S24
- Black theatre and performance : a pan-African bibliography / compiled by John Gray. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1051235~S24