Many Struggles

Hakim Adi

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780745347653
• eBook ISBN: 9780745347684
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern British History
• Index: History

'A wonderful showcase of the most exciting work happening in Black British History and a rousing call to action. Essential reading!' --Christienna Fryar, historian of Britain and the Caribbean

'A forceful revolt against Eurocentric history and imperialist nostalgia, this illuminates the everyday lives and interconnected freedom struggles of generations of Black people in Britain, particularly Black women. An indispensable resource' --W. Chris Johnson, University of Toronto

'They can destroy our landing cards, but they'll never erase our history! Packed with lucid, rigorous and groundbreaking new research, this is essential reading' --Kevin Searle, editorial board, History Matters

The history of African and Caribbean people in Britain is centuries long. Although integral to and indivisible from 'British history.' it is usually treated as a footnote – or forgotten altogether. But with the flourishing of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, and fierce debates around the legacies of colonialism, a renewed hunger for the recovery of this history has come.

Edited by leading historian Hakim Adi, Many Struggles includes contributions from various emerging historians and scholar-activists. Covering the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries, the book reveals the long history of African and Caribbean people in Britain. Drawing on new archival research, Many Struggles emphasizes often-neglected themes such as local histories, women, gender, and political activism.

Hakim Adi was the first person of African heritage to be appointed a professor of history in Britain and currently teaches at the University of Chichester. He is the author of numerous books, including African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History, West Africans in Britain 1900-1960, and Pan-Africanism: A History. He has made numerous documentary film, television and radio appearances and is included in the book 100 Great Black Britons.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. ‘A Diamond in the Dirt’: The Experiences of Anne Sancho in Eighteenth-Century London
• 2. Out in the English Countryside: Black People in Eighteenth-Century Warwickshire
• 3. Chasing Shadows: Conducting a Regional Black History of Falmouth and Penryn during the Packet Boat Years of 1688 to 1850
• 4. ‘Comrade Algerine Sankoh of West Africa’: Pan-Africanist and Britain’s First Black Revolutionary Socialist?
• 5. Dusé Mohamed Ali, the African Times and Orient Review and the British Government
• 6. Dark Lovers and Desdemonas: Gender, Race and Pan-Africanism in Britain, 1935–45
• 7. A Luta Continua: The Political Journey of Manchester’s Black Women Activists, 1945–80
• 8. How West Indian Students and Migrants Cooperated in Fighting Racialised Injustices in Britain, 1950s–1970s
• 9. ‘The Black Power Desk’: The Response of the State to the British Black Power Movement
• 10. Black Power in Britain and the Caribbean: Establishing Connections, 1968–73
• 11. ‘The Enemy in Our Midst’: Caribbean Women and the Protection of Community in Leeds in the 1970s
• 12. Moving through Britain with Rastafari Women: Resistance and Unity in Babylon
• 13. The Black Parents’ Movement
• 14. Mollie Hunte – Educational Psychologist, Educator and Activist: What Archival Collections Can Tell Us
• 15. ‘Black Footprints’: A Trio of Experiences
• Notes on Contributors
• Index