Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica

Gemma Romain is a historian of the Caribbean and Black Britain. She researches, curates and writes on black British queer histories, and African-Caribbean diasporic histories with a focus on Grenada and Jamaica. She has recently worked at The Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, UCL, UK and is an Honorary Fellow of The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK. She was the co-curator with Caroline Bressey, Emma Chambers and Inga Fraser of the Tate Britain display ‘Spaces of Black Modernism: London 1919–39’ (2014-2015).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Archival Discoveries and Life Histories1. Jamaican Beginnings: Class, Race and Identity in Colonial Jamaica2. Patrick in 1920s and 1930s Jamaica: Cultural, Political, Social and Sexual Identities and Histories3. Patrick in Interwar Wales: Race, Sexuality, and Employment4. Queer Black Spaces and Cosmopolitan Interwar London5. A Jamaican Serviceman in the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 France 6. Imprisonment and Survival in the German Prisoner of War Camps7. Life after Captivity: Patrick, Politics and Life in Post-1945 London and Jamaica8. Resuming Life: Identity, Community and Belonging 9. The Lonely Londoners: Patrick in Early 1960s LondonEpilogue: Patrick's Life Story and its Historical and Contemporary ContextBibliographyIndex

Romain’s biography of Patrick Nelson throws light on and enriches a wide range of histories, including the history of the Second World War … Her work is important not only for Second World War and black British history, but also for art history, migration histories, and queer history, including the history of interracial queer relationships and of black queer lives in Britain and Jamaica.