Black British Culture and Society

Kwesi Owusu is a freelance lecturer, writer and film-maker and editor of Black British Culture and Society.

Introduction: charting the genealogy of Black British cultural studies SECTION ONE : CLASSIC TEXTS FROM POSTWAR NARRATIVES 1 The 1951–1955 Conservative government and the racialization of Black Immigration 2 The occasion for speaking 3 Timehri 4 The Caribbean community in Britain 5 Destroy this temple 6 The liberation of the Black intellectual 7 White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood 8 Woman abuse in London’s Black communities 9 Black hair/style politics 10 Black old age…the diaspora of the senses? 11 Frontlines and backyards: the terms of change SECTION TWO : CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF A BLACK BRITISH CULTURAL DISCOURSE PART 1 12 Double consciousness and the Black British athlete 13 The Final Passage: an interview with writer Caryl Phillips 14 A reporter at large: Black London 15 Birmingham: blades of frustration 16 Home is always elsewhere: individual and communal regenerative capacities of loss PART 2 17 That little magic touch: the headtie and issues around Black British women’s identity 18 Black photographic practice: an interview with Faisal Abdu’ Allah 19 A journey from the cold: rethinking Black film-making in Britain 20 Black art: a discussion with Eddie Chambers 21 Ter speak in yer mudder tongue: an interview with playwright Mustapha Matura 22 The long march from ‘ethnic arts’ to ‘new internationalism’ 23 Dub poet lekka mi: an exploration of performance poetry, power and identity politics in Black Britain 24 Conventional folly: a discussion of English classical theatre PART 3 25 Race, gender and IQ: the social consequence of a pseudo-scientific Discourse 26 Understanding the poorer health of Black people in Britain: revisiting the class and racialization debates 27 Black Britain’s economic power, myth or reality?: an empirical review and analysis of the economic reality of Black Britain 28 Carnival, the state and the Black masses in the United Kingdom PART 4 29 Virginity revamped: representations of female sexuality in the lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks 30 Mothers of Africa and the diaspora: shared maternal values among Black Women 31 Black masculinity 32 Mentoring Black males in Manchester: responding to the crisis in education and social alienation SECTION THREE : CULTURAL STUDIES AND BLACK POLITICAL DEBATE 33 Openings, absences and omissions: aspects of the treatment of ‘race’, culture and ethnicity in British cultural studies 34 The formation of a diasporic intellectual: an interview with Stuart Hall 35 The struggle for a radical Black political culture: an interview with A.Sivanandan 36 The Commission for Racial Equality and the politics of race relations: an interview with chairman Sir Herman Ouseley SECTION FOUR : DIASPORA AND NEW TRAJECTORIES OF GLOBALIZATION 37 The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity 38 Journeying to death: Gilroy’s Black Atlantic 39 A conversation with Aubrey Williams 40 Writing home: reconfiguring the (English)-African diaspora 41 Footprints of a mountaineer: Uzo Egonu and the Black redefinition of Modernism 42 Harvesting the folkloric intuition: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road