 | Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 Subjects: Blacks -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Radicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Blacks -- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century; 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. Waters Rob : Rob Waters is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Birmingham. |
