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" Staying power : "
Peter Fryer ; foreword by Gary Younge ; introduction by Paul Gilroy.
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BL
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880628
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Fryer, Peter
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Staying power : : the history of black people in Britain /\ Peter Fryer ; foreword by Gary Younge ; introduction by Paul Gilroy.
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London :: Pluto Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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xix, 636 pages ;; 23 cm
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0745338305
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178680333X
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1786803348
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9781786803337
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9781786803344
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First published in 1984.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-604) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / by Gary Younge -- Introduction / by Paul Gilroy -- Preface -- 'Those kinde of people': Africans in Britannia ; Africans in Scotland ; Africans in England ; Queen Elizabeth's response ; A Khoi-khoin in England -- 'Necessary implements': Sugar and slavery ; Chattels and status symbols ; Pageant performers -- Britain's slave ports: A profitable business ; The slave-merchants of Bristol and Liverpool ; London as a slave port: the West India lobby ; Competition ; Quality control ; Black people in the slave ports ; The slave ports' self-image -- The black community takes shape: Early black organizations ; Black people at work ; Asians in Britain ; Black musicians -- Eighteenth-century voices: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw ; Phillis Wheatley ; Ignatius Sancho ; Ottobah Cugoano ; Olaudah Equiano -- Slavery and the law: The legal pendulum ; Granville Sharp challenges the slave-owners ; The Somerset case ; Slavery and the Scottish law ; Mass murder on the high seas ; The Grace Jones case -- The rise of English racism: Race prejudice and racism ; The demonology of race ; Plantocracy racism ; Pseudo-scientific racism -- Up from slavery: The black poor ; Resistance and self-emancipation ; Abolitionists and radicals ; The black radicals ; The everyday struggle, 1787-1833 -- Challenges to empire: William Cuffay ; Mary Seacole ; Ira Aldridge ; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ; Challenges from Asia ; The rise of Pan-Africanism ; Black workers and soldiers -- Under attack: Racism as riot: 1919 ; Claude McKay and the 'horror on the Rhine' ; Defence and counter-attack ; Racism as colour bar ; Racism as riot: 1948 -- The settlers: The post-war immigration ; Racism as riot: 1958 ; Surrender to racism -- The new generation: Born at a disadvantage ; Police against black people ; Resistance and rebellion -- Appendixes: A. Letter from Olaudah Equiano to Thomas Hardy, 1792 ; B. Letter form William Davidson to Sarah Davidson, 1820 ; C. Letter from Robert Wedderburn to Francis Place, 1831 ; D. William Cuffay's speech from the dock, 1848 ; E. J.R. Archer's presidential address to the inaugural meeting of the African Progress Union, 1918 ; F. Birmingham, the metal industries, and the slave trade ; G. Eighteenth-century biographies ; H. Visitors, 1832-1919 ; I. Prize-fighters, 1791-1902.
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"'Staying Power' is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain. First published in the 80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was - and is - a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda.This new edition includes the classic introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack', in addition to a brand-new foreword by Guardian journalist Gary Younge, which examines the book's continued significance today as we face Brexit and a revival of right wing nationalism."--
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Blacks-- Great Britain-- History.
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Blacks.
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HISTORY.
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Race relations.
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Great Britain, Race relations, History.
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Great Britain.
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305.896041
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DA125.N4F785 2018
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