Description: Jessica Huntley's Pan-african Life : The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist, Paperback by Tomlinson, Claudia; Falola, Toyin (EDT); Adelakun, Abimbola (EDT), ISBN 150139455X, ISBN-13 9781501394553, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life celebrates Huntley's importance as a leading figure in the Windrush-era resistance to the multiple, racialized injustices faced by black settlers, children and communities in Britain. Claudia Tomlinson details how Huntley became the elder stateswoman of radical black activism of her era through participation in decolonization movements and actions such as the Black Parents Movement and the International Bookfair of Radical Black and Third World Books, as well as her foundational role at Bogle L'Ouverture Publications, the leading black-led, pan-African publishing house and its associated radical bookshop. 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 the history of a period and a struggle often told through a master discourse that is male, middle-class and privileged. In so doing, 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.
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Book Title: Jessica Huntley's Pan-african Life : The Decolonizing Work of a R
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life : the Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Social Activists
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Claudia Tomlinson
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
