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Soundings 10 considers how the arrival of the Empire Windrush
in 1948 in Britain has come to symbolise the inaguration of all the transformations
that have occured in Britain as a result of postwar patterns of migration
and settlement from the former British colonies. This issue explores the
transformations of the last fifty years, reflecting on their effects on
people's lives and loves - both black and white - and on our collective
attempts to grapple with the chanching meanings of such terms as identity,
belonging, nation and home. Contributors discuss immigration policies
and the state; black women and black masculinity; changing notions of
Britishness; the spatial racialisation of British cities; and the literature
of migration; there are also short stories by Mike phillips and Jackie
Kay
Contributors and Contents:
Part I
Editorial: I'm not an Economist but ...
Doreen Massey
Tony Blair and the Jargon of Modernisation
Alan Finlayson
Scenes
Will Forrest
Poems: Michael Laskey, Dorothy Nimmo, Stephen Wade, Susan Wicks
Imagination Without Power:Contemporary Social Movements in Italy
Mario Pianta
Political opposition in the Ivory Coast: Problems and Perspectives
Richard Moncrieff
Reviews: Sean Grey on Diane Coyle The Weightless World, Aaisya
Lodhi on Chris Patten East and West, Nadje S. Al-Ali on Bobby
Sayyid AFundamental Fear:Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism.
Part II: Windrush Echoes
Introduction
Gail Lewis and Lola Young
'Multiculture', 'Multiracism' and Young People:Contradictory legacies
of Windrush
Anne Phoenix
Out of Hand: A Short Story
Jackie Kay
Hidden Struggles: Black Women's Activism and Black Masculinity in the
Shadow of the Windrush
Julia Sudbury
Nigeria-London Connections:Photoessay
Femi Franklin
with an introduction by Lola Young
The Racialisation of Space in British Cities
David Sibley
The Hanging Baskets of Wood Green
Mike Phillips
The Limits of Inclusion:Western Political Theory and Immigration
Phil Cole
A Game of Two Halves: 'English' identity fifty years after the Windrush
Bilkis Malek
Negotiated Belongings:Interview with Simon Hamilton-Clarke
Gail Lewis
Hair: A photo essay
Sonia Boyce
All in the Same Boat?
Roshi Naidoo
Christmas Cake and Calypso
Val Wilmer
Postscript Stuart Hall
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