Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985

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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. Cover......Page 1 Thinking Black......Page 4 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Dedication......Page 8 CONTENTS......Page 10 List of Illustrations......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Acronyms and Initialisms of Black Britain......Page 16 Introduction: History Moving Fast......Page 18 1 • Becoming Black in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power......Page 32 2 • Political Blackness: Brothers and Sisters......Page 68 3 • Radical Blackness and the Post-imperial State: The Mangrove Nine Trial......Page 110 4 • Black Studies......Page 142 5 • Thinking about Race in a Time of Rebellion......Page 182 Epilogue: Black Futures Past......Page 226 Notes......Page 240 Selected Bibliography......Page 292 Index......Page 316