Joe Cotton - The Post-Windrush Generation: Black British Voices of Resistance https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-CRASSH-red-round-32x32.png Joe Cotton - The Post-Windrush Generation: Black British Voices of Resistance https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk 32 32 Oppression or protection? Policing & Black British Caribbean communities https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/06/22/oppression-or-protection-policing-black-british-caribbean-communities/ Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:26:17 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=977 Fri 06 May 2022, 14.10-14.30 Katrina Ffrench, UNJUST Katrina Ffrench is the Founding Director of UNJUST C.I.C, and was formerly the first chief executive of the national charity StopWatch.  Katrina has overseen the publication of several evidence-based reports and has led a range of advocacy initiatives influencing policing policy and practice. A confident and effective… Continue reading Oppression or protection? Policing & Black British Caribbean communities

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Fri 06 May 2022, 14.10-14.30

Katrina Ffrench, UNJUST

Katrina Ffrench is the Founding Director of UNJUST C.I.C, and was formerly the first chief executive of the national charity StopWatch. 

Katrina has overseen the publication of several evidence-based reports and has led a range of advocacy initiatives influencing policing policy and practice. A confident and effective communicator, in June 2020 she provided oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee –The Macpherson Report: twenty-one years on inquiry. 

Katrina has also held the vice-chair and chair positions on The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime Pan-London Stop and Search Community Monitoring Network.  Katrina is a Black British Voices Project Steering Group member and a trustee of Transform Drug Policy Foundation.

In 2022, Katrina was elected as a Labour Councillor for Furzedown ward in the borough of Wandsworth.

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British Reggae: Resistance and Transcendence https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/21/british-reggae/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:19:53 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=358 Fri 06 May 2022, 10.30-10.50 Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry, University of West London In this Reggaematical talk, Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry will take you on an audio-visual journey through some of the hidden struggles of Black people in the UK for equal rights and social justice, as framed through the lens of reggae music. By… Continue reading British Reggae: Resistance and Transcendence

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Fri 06 May 2022, 10.30-10.50

Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry, University of West London

In this Reggaematical talk, Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry will take you on an audio-visual journey through some of the hidden struggles of Black people in the UK for equal rights and social justice, as framed through the lens of reggae music.

By using his ‘A Side – B Side’ metaphor, he will shed light on the treatment of peoples of African ancestry by racist Europeans in the UK, to explore how popular cultural artefacts are often utilised as viable, and valid, forms of resistance to transcendence. 

About the speaker

Prof William Lez Henry was born in the London borough of Lewisham, of Jamaican Parentage and is Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of West London and is the Course Leader for the MA: Global Black Studies, Decolonisation and Social Justice. He is the British Reggae Deejay Lezlee Lyrix and is a writer, poet and community activist who is renowned as a first-rate public speaker. He has featured in numerous documentaries and current affairs television and radio programmes and lectured nationally and internationally on behalf of private and public institutions.

Prof Henry lectures in the areas of criminology, sociology, anthropology, black history, whiteness studies, race, education, ethnicity, gender, youth justice and cultural studies, and delivers educational programmes in community and grass-roots settings, as well as in universities, schools and colleges.

Moreover, with a keen interest in the counter-cultures of the African Diaspora, especially as recorded through the lens of popular cultural forms such as reggae music, his perspective makes known the
historical black British and Caribbean influence/contribution to the social, cultural and political struggles of the global African Diaspora against white supremacist thought and action.

Prof Henry has sole-authored several journal articles, books, and chapters in books and has written and published extensively on many of the concerns of the African/Black Diaspora in the UK and
beyond. Moreover, with his wide-ranging research and teaching experience, in formal and informal academic settings, he has taught educational programmes for many of those who, like him, turned
their backs on formal education in their youth.

He is currently delivering his ‘GOAL MODELS: Pathways to Success’, in tandem with UWL’s ‘Outreach Team’, to Secondary Schools and works with UWL’s ‘Mature Learners Team’. Prof Henry is a founder member of the National Independent Education Coalition and The Lewisham Black Fathers Support Group and has also led study tours to Egypt.

Prof Henry has a passion for martial arts and holds a Shodan Black Belt in IKK Kyokushinkai Karate and is a 2nd Degree, Black Belt, Instructor with London Hung Kuen, Five Animals, Shaolin Kung Fu.

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Post-Windrush: Next Generation Europeans https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/21/next-generation-europeans/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:57:23 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=352 Sat 07 May 2022, 11.40-12.00 Levi Tafari, Charles University Levi Tafari was born in Liverpool. He is the author of three poetry collections: Duboetry (1987), Liverpool Experience (1989) and Rhyme Don’t Pay (1998). His latest collection, From the Page to the Stage, is now available. His plays have been performed at the Unity Theatre and… Continue reading Post-Windrush: Next Generation Europeans

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Sat 07 May 2022, 11.40-12.00

Levi Tafari, Charles University

Levi Tafari was born in Liverpool. He is the author of three poetry collections: Duboetry (1987), Liverpool Experience (1989) and Rhyme Don’t Pay (1998). His latest collection, From the Page to the Stage, is now available. His plays have been performed at the Unity Theatre and the Playhouse in Liverpool, as well as at the Blackheath Theatre in Stafford. He has also worked on educational projects running creative writing workshops in schools, colleges,universities, youth centres, prisons and libraries. 

Levi Tafari’s musical projects include work with Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble Delado, the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and with his own reggae fusion band Ministry of Love. He has also played with Urban Strawberry Lunch and Griot Workshop and has recently worked with jazz musician Dennis Rollins.

He was Writer in Residence at Charles University, Prague, and has toured various countries, including the Czech Republic, Singapore and Jordan. He has also appeared in many television programmes including Blue Peter and Grange Hill, and made a well-received film about Rastafarianism for BBC television’s Everyman programme entitled The Road to Zion.

Levi has collaborated extensively with the British Council in many parts of Europe and the Far East in flagship education and arts projects such as Britlit and Inclusion and Diversity in Education (INDIE).  At present Levi is working with 50 European schools in INDIE both delivering creative writing and communication workshops to young people and sharing his unique and vibrant poetry with whole school communities.

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Reggae Theatrics: Dub poetry, Words, Sound, Power and Resistance https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/reggae-theatrics/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:45:52 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=204 Sat 07 May 2022, 11.15-11.35 Dr Martin Glynn, Birmingham City University Reggae theatrics, expressed through Dub poetry with the maxim of ‘Words, Sound, Power’, articulated the voice of black British resistance throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. Operating as a cultural ‘counter narrative’ dub poetry contested traditional constructs regarding the understandings of black oppression and it’s… Continue reading Reggae Theatrics: Dub poetry, Words, Sound, Power and Resistance

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Sat 07 May 2022, 11.15-11.35

Dr Martin Glynn, Birmingham City University

Reggae theatrics, expressed through Dub poetry with the maxim of ‘Words, Sound, Power’, articulated the voice of black British resistance throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Operating as a cultural ‘counter narrative’ dub poetry contested traditional constructs regarding the understandings of black oppression and it’s resistance. It is my contention that using politicised orality such as ‘dub poetry’ generated both an ‘immersive’ and ‘sensory’ experience, within in the black community at that time, that transcended the academy, conference, and peer review journal.

In essence reimagining performative counter narratives such as dub poetry and other associated cultural artforms could support contemporary ‘praxis’, where dub poetry can represent, promote, and preserve, not only black British history but aid black self-determination.

About the speaker

Dr Martin Glynn is a criminologist and Winston Churchill Fellow with over 35 years’ experience of working in criminal justice, public health, and educational settings. As a writer Dr Martin Glynn has written for theatre, television, radio drama, children’s writing, and data storytelling. Dr Glynn is currently a lecturer in criminology at Birmingham City University and is the creative director of Algorhythm Creative Lab.

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‘Liv Good’: The Intersectionally Just Good Life, an African/Caribbean Perspective https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/liv-good/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:35:21 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=198 Fri 06 May 2022, 11.20-11.40 Dr Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, SOAS and Birkbeck University The disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has called us to consider fundamental life questions: What is the significance of human contact? What are the parameters of social responsibility? What is essential for our comfort and happiness? Similarly, the 2020 Black Lives Matter… Continue reading ‘Liv Good’: The Intersectionally Just Good Life, an African/Caribbean Perspective

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Fri 06 May 2022, 11.20-11.40

Dr Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, SOAS and Birkbeck University

The disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has called us to consider fundamental life questions: What is the significance of human contact? What are the parameters of social responsibility? What is essential for our comfort and happiness?

Similarly, the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings placed a sharpened lens on already deteriorating patterns of intersectional inequality, exacerbated by the pandemic. While such questions often arise in response to catastrophic injustices, appearing as solutions to what is wrong (what is right), they contain within them, simultaneously, a provocation to consider how we want to live, problems notwithstanding (what is good).

However, questions about ‘the good life’ and questions about social justice are typically dichotomised, the former being abstracted from the latter, both in practice – as policy or life choices – and in academic discussions. For those of us who live at the intersections of systemic domination, questions about the good life are thus rendered an intellectual luxury.

This gives rise to two problems. First, in the absence of our own imaginations and articulations of the good life, we must default to dominant versions that entail our own destruction. Second, without an intersectionally just conception of the good life, we lack a sound basis for making decisions about public policies and life choices.

I claim that what it means to ‘Liv Good’ is fundamentally tied to questions of who gets to live the good life. As such, any viable framework for the good life for African/ Caribbean peoples in Britain, must approach the socio-political and ethical as a holistic albeit ‘pluriversal’ endeavour.

About the speaker

Dr. Gabriella Beckles-Raymond is an independent interdisciplinary philosopher, writer, educator, wife, mother, sister, aunty, and CEO of EQBR. Gabriella’s research and writing is concerned with questions of love, moral psychology, and intersectional justice and ethics.

Gabriella works on the Ebony Initiative at SOAS, University of London where she is also a distance learning module convenor. She is co-convenor of the African Diaspora Post-Graduate seminar at Birkbeck University and was Program Lead for Canterbury Christ Church University’s award-winning Theology Degree Partnership Program (2014-2019). She is co-founder of the Black Thought Collective and a member of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers and the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

Gabriella earned her MA and doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. She earned her BS in Psychology and MA in Sociology from Morgan State University in Baltimore, where she was also Director of the Academic Enrichment Program. Gabriella also holds the Senior Fellowship of Advanced Higher Education (SFHEA) and has a P.G.C.E. in Secondary Education from the Institute of Education, University of London.

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The Front Room: Diaspora migrant aesthetics in the Home https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/the-front-room/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:31:27 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=193 Sat 07 May 2022, 12.05-12.25 Dr Michael McMillan, University of the Arts London From the gaze of the post-Windrush generation, growing up and living Black in Britain, the public domain of the street has been the site of resistance for Black youth (often coded as male) against being Othered in a racist society. In the… Continue reading The Front Room: Diaspora migrant aesthetics in the Home

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Sat 07 May 2022, 12.05-12.25

Dr Michael McMillan, University of the Arts London

From the gaze of the post-Windrush generation, growing up and living Black in Britain, the public domain of the street has been the site of resistance for Black youth (often coded as male) against being Othered in a racist society.

In the British popular imaginary, Black youth have also been designated living on the street as if they had no homes to go to, and no families with values. On the contrary, the private realm of the Black home, was where Black youth had to ‘fix up’ and domestic creative agency of Black women was often expressed through our being and becoming.

The front room therefore signifies the liminal space between the public and private of realms of Black life, where intergenerational identification, belonging, rebelliousness (read back chat and rudeness) and resistance is enacted.This will be visually shown in this presentation with documentation of The West Indian Front Room, which was the Geffrye Museum’s most popular exhibition, because in speaking to ‘a kind of truth’ after Toni Morrison, about the material culture of front rooms created by Caribbean migrant families, it also spoke to other migrant and white working communities about shared aesthetics in the home.

Dr Michael McMillan (C) EM Fitzgerald 2021

With apologies, the recording of Dr Michael McMillian from this conference is not available. However, you can watch an extended version of his presentation via North Herts African and Caribbean Community.

The Front Room is now a permanent 1970s period room at the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum), which in the context of decolonising the museum, speaks to the resilience, durability and cultural political intervention of the post-Windrush generation in transforming British society. James Baldwin suggests that history is not in the past, but in the present, because we carry our histories with us. How then is this represented in our material culture?

About the speaker

Michael McMillan is a London based writer, playwright, artist/curator and academic, known for his critically acclaimed installation-based exhibition, The West Indian Front Room, which was the Geffrye Museum’s successful exhibition (2005-06). It has been iterated in The Netherlands, Curacao, Johannesburg and France, the basis of the BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room (2007) and his book, The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (2009). The Front Room is now a permanent 1970s period room Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum) – as well as his triptych film installation Waiting for myself to appear. The Front Room will also be part of the Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now at Tate Britain (December 2021-April 2022). Other work in 2021 includes: Sonic Vibrations Sound systems, lovers rock and dub – and the short film Walking in the Wake. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London), and Research Associate with VIAD (University of Johannesburg). 

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The ‘Windrush generation’ as a discursive construction: the representation of a migrant group in UK public discourse https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/windrush-discursive-construction/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:25:27 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=190 Fri 06 May 2022, 14.35-14.55 Dr Sharon Walker, University of Bristol For this talk, I am interested in the representation of the ‘Windrush generation’. Echoing, Taylor (2020) in her paper ‘Representing the Windrush generation’, I am interested in the shifts in representation – the continuities and discontinuities – of this migrant group of around half… Continue reading The ‘Windrush generation’ as a discursive construction: the representation of a migrant group in UK public discourse

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Fri 06 May 2022, 14.35-14.55

Dr Sharon Walker, University of Bristol

For this talk, I am interested in the representation of the ‘Windrush generation’. Echoing, Taylor (2020) in her paper ‘Representing the Windrush generation’, I am interested in the shifts in representation – the continuities and discontinuities – of this migrant group of around half a million people who moved to the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 to 1971.

However, I am particularly interested in the emergence of the term ‘Windrush generation’ – by whom is it used, and what it makes visible (or invisible). My thoughts in this area are still forming and this talk will be a good opportunity to engage with others.

Taylor. C. (2020). Representing the Windrush generation: metaphor in discourses then and now, Critical Discourse Studies, 17(1), 1-21.

About the speaker

Dr Sharon Walker is a lecturer in Racial Justice and Education. Her research examines the material and discursive processes that reproduce the idea of racial difference, and racist practices and outcomes in education systems. Her work addresses UK education policy and issues of race and racism in the field of education and development. A former primary school teacher, she also works closely with school leaders to strengthen teacher knowledge and capacity in taking forward anti-racist and decolonising initiatives.

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Dr Sharon Walker is a founding member and facilitator of the Race, Empire and Education Collective.

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The Windrush and the children left behind: in/visible narratives of migration, recognition and belonging https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/children-left-behind/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:20:13 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=186 Fri 06 May 2022, 13.45-14.05 Dr Christiana Abraham, Concordia University This paper engages with a rarely discussed aspect of the Wind-Rush migration phenomenon: the children left behind.  Hundreds, even thousands of children were left behind in the Caribbean when many young West Indian migrants climbed aboard the ships to seek new opportunities in England during the three… Continue reading The Windrush and the children left behind: in/visible narratives of migration, recognition and belonging

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Fri 06 May 2022, 13.45-14.05

Dr Christiana Abraham, Concordia University

This paper engages with a rarely discussed aspect of the Wind-Rush migration phenomenon: the children left behind. 

Hundreds, even thousands of children were left behind in the Caribbean when many young West Indian migrants climbed aboard the ships to seek new opportunities in England during the three to four decades of the Wind-Rush migration.  These children were left in the care of relatives or guardians, and while some were later sent for, a large number never reunited with their parents in the UK. This ‘generation left behind’ associated their parents in England with remittances and gifts, but they never bonded with their growing and extended families in the UK.  

Dr Christiana Abraham © Concordia University, photo by Lisa Graves

Conference recording not available.

While some of these children were well cared for by grandparents, many suffered abuse, trauma, alienation, or delinquency.  The recent Wind-Rush scandal has served as an important trigger in understanding the invisible, violent aspect of this history.

What are the experiences of these children and what does the Wind-Rush legacy represent to them?  Drawing from documentation, personal reflection, and memory, this paper draws attention to the complex and personal nature of this migration.  It advocates for a broadened approach to the meaning of the Wind-Rush legacy ​across geographical borders that incorporates the voices of these children in the rethinking of ‘belonging’ to this history. 

This reconsideration of the ‘post Windrush generation’ allows a de-territorialized conception of identity and resistance. In so doing, it locates discourses of the Wind-Rush within a broader conceptualization of empire, colonialism’s legacy and resistance.

About the speaker

Christiana Abraham is a Scholar in-Residence, Critical Race Pedagogies, at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She holds a Ph.D in Communication Studies from McGill University.

Her teaching and research specialities are in visual representations and culture; de/post-coloniality and Gender; race, ethnicity and media and transnational and global-South media practices.

A former lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, her academic interventions are located at the intersections of critical race pedagogies, visual culture, media, gender, and post/de-colonialization. Her work revolves around the radical re-thinking of archives, community, and orality as forms of grounded grass-roots activism that critically reclaims and re-narrates established esthetics, canons, and cultural knowledges. A Scholar, media practitioner, and independent curator, her scholarship is interested in the destabilization and re-visualization of visuality in anti-racist and de-colonial pedagogies. 

She is the curator of “Protests and Pedagogy: Representations, Memories, and Meanings” an archival exhibition that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Sir George Williams Student protest.   Prior to this, she curated “From the Archives to the Everyday: Caribbean Visualities and Meanings” a collection of vintage family photographs of Caribbean life.

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Abraham, C. (2021) Toppled Monuments and Black Lives Matter: Race, Gender, and Decolonization in the Public Space. An Interview with Charmaine A. Nelson. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice.

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Reflections on Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/reflections-on-terraformed/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:15:49 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=182 Sat 07 May 2022, 14.55-15.15 Dr Joy White, University of Bedfordshire Forty years of neoliberalism on either side of the Atlantic have embedded nihilistic, consumerist values as though that is the only way for society to move forward. In this landscape, Black lives have been rendered as troublesome, and are perceived as having little value.… Continue reading Reflections on Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

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Sat 07 May 2022, 14.55-15.15

Dr Joy White, University of Bedfordshire

Forty years of neoliberalism on either side of the Atlantic have embedded nihilistic, consumerist values as though that is the only way for society to move forward.

In this landscape, Black lives have been rendered as troublesome, and are perceived as having little value. Young people’s lives are increasingly informed by what it means to be poor in an affluent world, of feeling trapped in a system that appears to offer few routes out, on, or up. Terraformed is my attempt to connect the dots, to locate the struggles, the wins and the losses of young Black lives within a structural, institutional and historical context.  

In the UK, simmering below the surface of luxury new builds and obvious wealth, the ever-widening gap between the haves and have nots is revealed via the sonic landscape.

In this paper, I reflect on what it means to grow up ‘Black’ and ‘British’ in a hostile environment. While there is little doubt that young Black lives are lived with and through levels of disadvantage, we cannot underestimate the hope and resistance that comes from creativity in all its forms. Therefore, I will discuss how and why music matters, taking into account the impact of austerity, neoliberalism and racism in a specific east London neighbourhood.

About the speaker

Dr Joy White is a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at University of Bedfordshire and the author of Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City. Her previous work includes Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise, one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of grime music. 

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Looking Ahead: Caribbean community and identity in the fifth generation https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/2022/03/15/looking-ahead/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:11:40 +0000 https://post-windrush.crassh.cam.ac.uk/?p=177 Sat 07 May 2022, 15.20-15.40 Dr Audrey Allwood, Goldsmiths Today we have reached the fifth generation since the WWII mass migration of Caribbean people to Britain. This enabled sizeable communities to form in the major cities in Britain. Although there have been challenges to the settlement and integration, Caribbean people have also achieved much success.… Continue reading Looking Ahead: Caribbean community and identity in the fifth generation

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Sat 07 May 2022, 15.20-15.40

Dr Audrey Allwood, Goldsmiths

Today we have reached the fifth generation since the WWII mass migration of Caribbean people to Britain. This enabled sizeable communities to form in the major cities in Britain.

Although there have been challenges to the settlement and integration, Caribbean people have also achieved much success. Indeed, the Caribbean influence on British culture is recognisable and recognised.

However, developing a sense of place and belonging ensues through traversing contested territory personally and through navigating a position in British society. The journey through the decades and generations has seen many consistencies, adaptations, and changes, forging local and transnational connections of tradition and culture.

At this post stage, I raise questions about the Caribbean community, but not in criticism, more in terms a focus regarding strengthening a sense of identity as Caribbean roots deepen and multiply in Britain.

About the speaker

Dr Audrey Allwood is a British Social Anthropologist since obtaining her doctorate in 2008, and is currently Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She undertakes research on the Caribbean community in Britain with a focus on in inter-generational kinship and genealogy, contributions to culture, belonging, and legacy in British society. Recently publishing her research entitled, Belonging in Brixton: An Ethnography of Migrant West Indian Elders in Brixton, London (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).     

Audrey has collaborated with Age UK Lambeth obtaining grants to deliver community engagement projects. Most recently authoring ‘Windrush Generations Trades People (Self Published 2021) that highlights skills and achievements, showcasing 12 stories of people working in the trades from varies perspectives, such as an accomplished tailor and apprentice builder, launched in Black History Month 2021with Lambeth Libraries.  In 2019, delivering a collaborative Windrush Multi-Media Exhibition, developed with a local primary school, youth club, and Windrush elder’s group, that was opened by the Lambeth Mayor.

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Belonging in Brixton: An Ethnography of Migrant West Indian Elders in Brixton, London (Palgrave 2020)
Windrush Generations Trades People: 12 stories written by Dr Audrey Allwood

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