Claudia Tomlinson

Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life (eBook, PDF)

The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful biography that presents 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.

Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life celebrates Huntley's importance as a leading figure in the Windrush-era resistance to the multiple, racialized injustices faced by black settlers, children and communities in Britain. Claudia Tomlinson details how Huntley became the elder stateswoman of radical black activism of her era through participation in decolonization movements and actions such as the Black Parents Movement and the International Bookfair of Radical Black and Third World Books, as well as her foundational role at Bogle L'Ouverture Publications, the leading black-led, pan-African publishing house and its associated radical bookshop.

Based on extensive archival research and over 40 interviews with Huntley's closest family members, associates, comrades, authors, artists and friends, this book affords readers an opportunity to take a long-lensed view of the historical roots of the many contemporary racial injustices re-invigorated in recent debates. Tomlinson re-writes the history of a period and a struggle often told through a master discourse that is male, middle-class and privileged. In so doing, she shows how Jessica Huntley's fight for justice and the rights of all black people in Britain provides a useful lens into UK-based, black literary and cultural expression in the 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501394584
• Artikelnr.: 72261504

Autorenporträt

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