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Kensington Commonwealth Library

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Library services

New Beacon Bookstore
Online book catalog

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Online book catalog

BBC Windrush page
Online archives of the Windrush generation

Bibliography of Caribbean Writing Home Page
Extensive bibliographies of both West Indian and Black British writers

University of Texas
Electronic Journals

London Arts Council
Poetry Performance Listings

LKJ records
Discography

Universities

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Critical Essays

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Cultural Theory

Alexander Claire E
The Art of being black: The creation of Black British youth identities, 1996

Anderson Benedict
Imagined Communities, 1991

Anim Addo, Joan
Framing the word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing, London 1996

Bhaba Homi
The Location of Culture
Nation and Narration

Barker Francis
Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory ed Peter Hulme, Margaret Iverson, Manchester 1994

Brydon Diane, Helen Tiffin
Decolonizing Fictions, Dangaroo 1993

Bygott David
Black and British, Oxford 1992

Cohen Robin
Frontiers of Identity: The British and the others, Longman 1994

Dabydeen David and Paul Edwards
Black Writers in Britain, 1760-1890, Edinburg Press 1991

Dennis Ferdinand
Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain, London 1988

Diawara Manthia, Houston A Baker, Ruth Lioneloborg
Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader , University of Chicago Press 1992

Gikandi Simon
Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the culture of colonialism, 1996

Hall Stuart edited Paul De Gay,
Questions of cultural identity Sabe Publications 1996

Jelinek Maes, Kirsten Holst Peterson and Anna Rutherford
A Shaping of Connections, Dangaroo 1989

Lavie Smadar and Swedenburg
Diaplacement Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, Duke Press 1996

Lee Robert
Other Britain, other British-Contemporary Multicultural Fiction, Pluto Press 1995

Malik Kenan
The Meaning of Race, New York University 1996

Moodood Tariq, Richard Berthoud, Jane Lakey, James Nazoo, Pattern Smith, Satnam Virdee, Sharon Beishon Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantages, 1998

Slevon Stephen edited Helen Tiffin,
After Europe: Reading for Resistance in Postcolonial Literature, 1989

Spivak Gayatri Chakrovorty
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, Routledge 1988

Tiffin Chris and Alan Lawson
De-Scribing Empire: Postcolonialism and Textuality, London 1994

Feminism

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Bloom Clive
Black Women’s writings,

Bloom Harold
Caribben Women Writers, Chelsea House Publications 1997

Bush Barbara
Slave Women in the Caribbean Society, 1990

Chancey Myriam
Searching for Safe Spaces, 1998

Dondy Farrukh, Barbara Beese aned Leila Hassan
The Black Explosion in British Schools, Race Today 1982

Dodgson Elyse West Indian women to Britain in the late 1950’s, London 1984

Gates, Henry Louis
Reading Black, Reading feminist : A Critical Anthology, New York 1990

Gilroy Beryl edited Joan Adim Addo
Leaves of the Wind Collected Writings, Mango Publishing 1998

Gilroy Paul
There ain’t no black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, London 1987
Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures, London 1993
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, London 1993

Goldberg Theo David
Anatomy of Racism, University of Minnosota, 1990

Gorlier Claudio and Isabella Maria Zoppi
Cross Cultural Voices Investigation into the Postcolonial, Bulzoni Editore 1997

Green Jonathan
Voices from the immigrant community in contemporary Britain, London 1990

Guptura, Prabhu S
Black British literature: an annotated bibliography, England 1986

Macaulay Delia Jarett
Reconstructing Womanhood: Reconstructing Feminism, Routledge 1996

Mirza Heidi Black British Feminism, London 1997

Education

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Banks James
Multicultural education, 2nd ed, Boston 1999

Coard Bernard
How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System, New Beacon Books 1971

Black British History

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Davison Robert Barry
Black British-immigrants to England

Edwards, Paul Geoffrey
Black Personalities in the era of the slave trade, Baton Rouge 1983
Black writers in Britain: 1760-1890, Edinburg 1991

Fenton Steve
Aging Minorities: Black People as they grow old in Britain, London 1987

Foster Francis
Witnessing Slavery-The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative, 1994

Fryer Peter
Staying Power, Pluto Press 1984
Black People in the British Empire, Pluto Press 1988

Harris Clive
Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain, Verson 1993

Lorimar Douglas
Color, Class and the Victorian English Attitudes to the Negro in the Eighteenth Century, Leicester Press 1978

Owusu Kwesi
The Struggle for the Black Arts in Britain,

Phillips Mike and Trevor Phillips
Windrush: The Irresistable Rise of Multi-Racial Britain, Harper Collins 1998

Pratt Mary Louise
Imperial Eyes:Travel Writing and Transculturation, Routledge 1992

Said Edward
Culture and Imperialism, 1994

Scobie Edward
Black Brittania, Johnson Publishing Company 1972

Shyllon F.D
Black Slaves in Britain, Oxford University Press

Sivanandan, Ambalavaner
Coloured immigrants in Britain: A select bibliography, London 1969
Communities of resistance: Writings on Black struggles for socialism, London 1990
A different hunger: Writings on Black resistance, London 1982

Walvin James
The Black Presence: A Documentary History of the Negro in England, 1555-1860, New York 1971
Black and White: The Negro and English society, London 1973
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Black Slaves and the British Empire, Longman 1976
Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade, Baton Rouge 1983
England, Slaves and Freedom 1776-1838, Macmillian Press, 1986
Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery, Washington 1992
Questioning Slavery, London 1996

Wambu Oneyekachi
Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing about Black Britain, London, 1998

Language

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Edwards Viv
Language in a Black Community, England 1986

Labov William
Language in the inner city: Studies in the Black English Vernacular

Le Page RB and Andre Tabouret Kelly
Acts of Identity: Creole based approaches to Language and Ethnicity, Cambridge1985

Romaine Suzanne
Pidgin and Creole Languages, London 1988

 

Rastafarianism

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Benyon John
Essays Reflecting Lord Scarman’s Report, The Riots and their Aftermath, Pergamon Press 1984

Benyon John and John Solomos
The Roots of Urban Unrest, Pergamon Press 1987

Cashmore Ernest
Rastaman: The Rastafarian Movement in England, London 1979

Cashmore Ernest and Barry Troyna
Black Youth in Crisis,

Garrison Len Black
Youth, Rastafarianism and the Identity Crisis in Britain, London 1979

Haberkost Christian
Dub Poetry: 19 poets from England and Jamaica Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry

Hall Stuart
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the state and law and order, London 1978
Resistance through rituals: Youth subcultures in post-war Britain, London 1993

Howe Darcus
From Bobby to Babylon: Blacks and the British polics, Race Today Publications 1988

Jones Simon
Black Culture White Youths: The Reggae Tradition from Ja-Uk, London 1988

Academics

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Dr. Kenneth Ramchand,
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad

University of Warwick
Dr. John Gilmore, English Department
Dr. David Dabydeen, English Department
Dr. Clive Harris, Race and Ethics Department
Warwick also contains audio visual materials

Queen Mary University
Dr. Susheila Nasta, Queen Mary University

Goldsmith's University
Joan Anim Addo, Goldsmith’s University
Dr. Paul Gilroy, Goldsmith’s University
University contains a large stock of film and media related to Black British studies

University of Texas, Austin
Dr. Mia Carter, University of Texas, Austin
Berth Linfords, University of Texas, Austin
Library contains a large amount of resources related to Black British film

Stuart Hall

James Walvin, Leeds University

Sandra Paquet Pouchet,

University of Miami Fred D’Aguiar, The University of Miami

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