Abstract
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.
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Berkeley |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Edition | First edition |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780520967205 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780520293854, 9780520293847 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Berkeley Series in British Studies |
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| Publisher | University of California Press |