Growing out : black hair and black pride in the swinging 60s
Blake Hannah, Barbara Makeda, 1941-2022
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Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She finds her footing in TV, and blossoms. Covering incredible celebrity stories, travelling around the world and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Germaine Greer and Michael Caine - her life sparkles. But with the responsibility of being the first black woman reporting on TV comes an enormous amount of pressure, and a flood of hateful letters and complaints from viewers that eventually costs her the job. In the aftermath of this fallout, she goes through a period of self-discovery that allows her to carve out a new space for herself first in the UK and then back home in Jamaica - one that allows her to embrace and celebrate her black identity, rather than feeling suffocated in her attempts to emulate whiteness and conform to the culture around her.
Main title:
Growing out : black hair and black pride in the swinging 60s / Barbara Blake Hannah.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2022.©2016
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
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Notes:
First published by Jamaica Media Productions Ltd 2016. First published with a new introduction by Penguin Books 2022.
ISBN:
9780241993767 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.4508996041791.450899
Local class:
CU.4.01/BLA
Language:
English
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BRN:
3205300