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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Crossing the seas - Bill Schwarz -- - What is a West Indian? - Catherine Hall -- - 'To do something for the race' : Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples - David Killingray -- - A race outcast from an outcast class : Claude McKay's experience and analysis of Britain - Winston James -- - Jean Rhys : West Indian intellectual - Helen Carr -- - Una Marson : feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom - Alison Donnell -- - George Padmore - Bill Schwarz -- - C.L.R. James : visions of history, visions of Britain - Stephen Howe -- - George Lamming - Mary Chamberlain -- - 'This is London calling the West Indies' : the BBC's Caribbean voices - Glyne Griffith -- - The Caribbean artists movement - Louis James -- - V.S. Naipaul - Sue Thomas -- - Afterword : The predicament of history - Bill Schwarz
This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain