Jessica Huntley's Pan-African life : the decolonizing work of a radical Black activist
Tomlinson, Claudia2024
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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. 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 history of a period and a struggle often told through a master discourse that is male, middle-class and privileged. 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.
Main title:
Author:
Tomlinson, Claudia, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Collation:
xiii, 235 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781501394553 (pbk)
Dewey class:
323.0942092
Local class:
CU.4.01/TOM
Language:
English
Subject:
Huntley, Jessica, 1927-2013Political activists -- England -- London -- BiographyGuyanese -- England -- London -- BiographyAnti-imperialist movements -- GuyanaPublishers and publishing -- England -- LondonGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryGuyana -- Politics and government -- 1803-1966
BRN:
3899381