Harry Goulbourne was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Race and Ethnicity Research Centre, South Bank University, London. He has published numerous books, including Caribbean Transnational Experience, Race and Ethnicity and Caribbean Families in Britain and the Trans-Atlantic World.

• List of TablesPreface & Acknowledgements1. Questions of theory, definition, purpose 2. A common trans-Atlantic heritage 3. Contemporary social and political dimensions of British-Caribbean transnationality4. Africa and the Caribbean in Caribbean consciousness and action in Britain 5. Black America in Caribbean public discourse in Britain: Uncle Tom, Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis6. Having a voice: Caribbean publishers and diasporic communicationReferencesIndex

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