"This is a powerful analysis of a black working class woman who rose from a tenement slum in intensely racialized British Guiana to become a leading anti-colonialism, workers' rights and women's liberation activist in Britain. Tomlinson details Huntley's participation with actions such as the International Bookfair of Radical Black and Third World Books and her role at Bogle L'Ouverture Publications and its radical bookshop. Based on archival research and over 40 interviews with Huntley's closest family members and associates, it re-writes the history of a period and a struggle often told…mehr
"This is a powerful analysis of a black working class woman who rose from a tenement slum in intensely racialized British Guiana to become a leading anti-colonialism, workers' rights and women's liberation activist in Britain. Tomlinson details Huntley's participation with actions such as the International Bookfair of Radical Black and Third World Books and her role at Bogle L'Ouverture Publications and its radical bookshop. Based on archival research and over 40 interviews with Huntley's closest family members and associates, it re-writes the history of a period and a struggle often told through a master discourse that is male, middle-class and privileged"--
Claudia Tomlinson is a writer and researcher on Guyanese, Caribbean, African and Black British History and Politics. She has a Ph.D. in History. She is author of a book chapter, 'How West Indian Students and Migrants Cooperated in Fighting Racialised Injustices in Britain 1950s-1970s', in Many Struggles: New Histories of African and Caribbean People in Britain, edited by Hakim Adi, (2023). She is also author of a chapter, 'Post-War Organising by People of African and Caribbean Heritage', in the forthcoming book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History, editors Sarah Crook and Sarah Kenny (2025). She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her writing has also been featured in History Matters Journal, The Huffington Post UK, The Independent, Stabroek News (Guyana) and the Gleaner (Jamaica) among other publications.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Growing Up, Rising Up 2. Raised to Resist 3. The Emerging Activist 4. National Freedom and Women's Emancipation 5. 'Bound with the Chains of Colonialism and Imperialism' 6. Struggles in Male Ranks 7. An Old Fight in a New Place 8. Finding a Foothold in Activism in Britain 9. Becoming West Indian in Britain 10. 'A Political Act', Bogle L'Ouverture Publication's Early Work 11. 'A New Alternative in Publishing' 12. 'To Re-Write Our Own History': A Black Publishing Strategy 13. Growing a Pan-African Publishing Tradition 14. 'The Atmosphere Was Electric in the Shop': Bookshop Activism 15. 'Matriarch of the Movement for Black Rights in Britain, the World' 16. Fighting for Decolonization in Independent Guyana 17. Publishing Activity in Bogle L'Ouverture's Later Period 18. The Bookshop Goes Back Home Appendix A: Oral History Interviews Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Growing Up, Rising Up 2. Raised to Resist 3. The Emerging Activist 4. National Freedom and Women's Emancipation 5. 'Bound with the Chains of Colonialism and Imperialism' 6. Struggles in Male Ranks 7. An Old Fight in a New Place 8. Finding a Foothold in Activism in Britain 9. Becoming West Indian in Britain 10. 'A Political Act', Bogle L'Ouverture Publication's Early Work 11. 'A New Alternative in Publishing' 12. 'To Re-Write Our Own History': A Black Publishing Strategy 13. Growing a Pan-African Publishing Tradition 14. 'The Atmosphere Was Electric in the Shop': Bookshop Activism 15. 'Matriarch of the Movement for Black Rights in Britain, the World' 16. Fighting for Decolonization in Independent Guyana 17. Publishing Activity in Bogle L'Ouverture's Later Period 18. The Bookshop Goes Back Home Appendix A: Oral History Interviews Bibliography Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
