London Is The Place For Me

In London Is The Place for Me, Kennetta Hammond Perry explores how Afro-Caribbean migrants navigated the politics of race and citizenship in Britain and reconfigured the boundaries of what it meant to be both Black and British at a critical juncture in the history of Empire and twentieth century transnational race politics. She situates their experience within a broader context of Black imperial and diasporic political participation, and examines the pushback-both legal and physical-that the migrants' presence provoked. Bringing together a variety of sources including calypso music, photographs, migrant narratives, and records of grassroots Black political organizations, London Is the Place for Me positions Black Britons as part of wider public debates both at home and abroad about citizenship, the meaning of Britishness and the politics of race in the second half of the twentieth century.

• | Author: Kennetta Hammond Perry
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 337 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Misc. Supplies
• | ISBN-10: 0190240202
• | ISBN-13: 9780190240202