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- catalog abstract ""The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this distinctive and lively collection. The contributors to Inside Babylon show how employers and police, psychiatrists and welfare services, help to channel black people into residential and occupational ghettoes. Clive Harris, Bob Carter and Shirley Joshi analyse the economic destiny of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain. Going beyond the familiar prisms of race relations and reductionist class analysis they illuminate the radicalizing dynamic of British capitalism in the postwar period. Errol Francis provides a shocking account of the experience of black people at the hands of psychiatrists in Britain. Cecil Gutzmore finds the Notting Hill carnival to be a litmus test of racist formations in both the media and the state, as well as evidence of the resilience of the black community. Amina Mama and Claudette Williams explore the position of women in black communities while Gail Lewis focuses on their characteristic patterns of employment. In a powerful concluding essay Winston James charts the unfolding of a new Afro-Caribbean identity in Britain and debunks the notion that racist structures by themselves create a homogeneous black community."--Publisher.".
- catalog contributor b5426710.
- catalog contributor b5426711.
- catalog coverage "Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this distinctive and lively collection. The contributors to Inside Babylon show how employers and police, psychiatrists and welfare services, help to channel black people into residential and occupational ghettoes. Clive Harris, Bob Carter and Shirley Joshi analyse the economic destiny of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain. Going beyond the familiar prisms of race relations and reductionist class analysis they illuminate the radicalizing dynamic of British capitalism in the postwar period. Errol Francis provides a shocking account of the experience of black people at the hands of psychiatrists in Britain. Cecil Gutzmore finds the Notting Hill carnival to be a litmus test of racist formations in both the media and the state, as well as evidence of the resilience of the black community. Amina Mama and Claudette Williams explore the position of women in black communities while Gail Lewis focuses on their characteristic patterns of employment. In a powerful concluding essay Winston James charts the unfolding of a new Afro-Caribbean identity in Britain and debunks the notion that racist structures by themselves create a homogeneous black community."--Publisher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 317 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Inside Babylon.".
- catalog identifier "0860914712 :".
- catalog identifier "0860916367 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Inside Babylon.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Verso,".
- catalog relation "Inside Babylon.".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "941/.00491411 20".
- catalog subject "Blacks Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "DA125.W4 I57 1993".
- catalog subject "West Indians Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "West Indians Great Britain Social conditions.".
- catalog title "Inside Babylon : the Caribbean diaspora in Britain / edited by Winston James and Clive Harris.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".