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Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life

The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvClaudia Tomlinson,Toyin Falola,Abimbola Adelakun

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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.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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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-03
Mått152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlack Literary and Cultural Expressions
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501394553

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Growing Up, Rising Up2. Raised to Resist3. The Emerging Activist4. National Freedom and Women’s Emancipation5. ‘Bound with the Chains of Colonialism and Imperialism’6. Struggles in Male Ranks7. An Old Fight in a New Place8. Finding a Foothold in Activism in Britain9. Becoming West Indian in Britain10. ‘A Political Act’, Bogle L’Ouverture Publication’s Early Work11. ‘A New Alternative in Publishing’12. ‘To Re-Write Our Own History’: A Black Publishing Strategy13. Growing a Pan-African Publishing Tradition 14. ‘The Atmosphere Was Electric in the Shop’: Bookshop Activism15. ‘Matriarch of the Movement for Black Rights in Britain, the World’16. Fighting for Decolonization in Independent Guyana17. Publishing Activity in Bogle L’Ouverture’s Later Period18. The Bookshop Goes Back HomeAppendix A: Oral History InterviewsBibliographyIndex

Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life offers a deeply inspiring exploration of Jessica Huntley’s early anti-colonial activism in British Guiana (Guyana), her confrontations with racism after migrating, and her crucial role in radical Black publishing in Britain. Claudia Tomlinson’s thorough research makes this book essential for anyone dedicated to understanding the workings of decolonization and women’s emancipation, while presenting a story that has not been told before.