A natural storyteller. This is a compelling and charming read' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'I'm black, so you don't have to be, ' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible, he would shake off the burden he believed his parents' gene...
The arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, Essex in 1948 was turned into a significant event by the British media but it is only one small part of a bigger story.Windrush looks at the movement of people after the Second World War in Britain. In an accessible and child-friendly way, the book explores the treatment of Black people, the struggles they faced and those they continue to face as well as celebrating the legacy of the Windrus...
In the first full-length biography of Garvey in a generation, Colin Grant captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black...
I'm black, so you don't have to be, ' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible, he would shake off the burden he believed his parents' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different.This is a memoir told through a series of intimate intergenerational p...
A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their own words, we witness the transition from the optimism of the first post-war arrivals to the race riots of the late ...
Ever heard 'Black people don't go camping' or 'Black people don't eat pasta?' This new Writing Our Legacy anthology aims to debunk outdated but still current stereotypes of Black people through a reimagining of the Sussex landscape from the Black, Asian and minority ethnic perspective. Twenty-three contributors from across East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton tell their own stories and narratives. The anthology tells stories of many firsts - ...
** A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**'Hopeful and angry, joyful and tear-jerking' Grazia'An extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph'Prickles with beautiful, comic and brutal details' Observer'Oral history at its finest' Daily Mail Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their ow...
Excerpt from Building Societies Accounts: Specially Adapted for Permanent Societies and Societies Using Interest TablesNevertheless, in the past, Building Societies have been some of the greatest offenders in the matter of bookkeeping. The Registrar has again and again complained in the Blue Book of the difiiculty in properly making up the Returns relating to Building Societies, owing to the lax method and various forms of bookkeeping in vogue...
Excerpt from Building Societies Accounts: Specially Adapted for Permanent Societies and Societies Using Interest TablesNevertheless, in the past, Building Societies have been some of the greatest offenders in the matter of bookkeeping. The Registrar has again and again complained in the Blue Book of the difiiculty in properly making up the Returns relating to Building Societies, owing to the lax method and various forms of bookkeeping in vogue...
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Part memoir, part history, this looks at epilepsy throughout history, and the pioneering work done by doctors to understand how the brain works. Grant's brother had epilepsy, and also looks at how it has affected his own life.
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirerof Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and...
Colin Grant is a historian and author of four highly praised books: Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (2008), I and I: The Natural Mystics Marley, Tosh and Wailer (2011), Bageye at the Wheel (2012), and A Smell of Burning (2016). He is an Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies, and teaches creative non-fiction writing, most recently for Arvon and Sierra Nevada College.
Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action , Grant here issues a range of challenges to it. He critiques theories of dialogism and intersubjectivity, proposes a rethinking of the communicating subject in society and explores the new contingencies of culture and media in today's world.
