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10%OFFEddie Chambers - Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain - 9781784536169 - V9781784536169
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Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain

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Description for Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSL3; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as Black Britain. Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
International Library of Visual Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784536169
SKU
V9781784536169
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About Eddie Chambers
Eddie Chambers is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches art history of the African Diaspora. Born in Britain to Jamaican immigrant parents, he spent the early 1980s working with a new generation of Black British artists. He is the author of Black Artists in British Art: A History ... Read more

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