Black Star : Britain's Asian youth movements / Anandi Ramamurthy.
Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: EBC3386734ISBN: 9781849649452 (e-book)Subject(s): South Asians -- Great Britain | Asians -- Great Britain | Youth movements -- Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 322.408995041 LOC classification: DA125.S57 | R36 2013Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Black Star documents the vibrant Asian Youth Movements in 1970s and 80s Britain who struggled against the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from Black Power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers' struggles across the globe.
This book is populated by landmark events in anti-racist struggle, from the Grunwick strike, to the Handsworth riots, and the acquittal of the Bradford 12. Ramamurthy writes of the evolution of a politicised Asian youth in Britain, focussing particularly on how the struggle to make Britain 'home' led to the conception of a broad-based identity inspiring unity amongst all those struggling against racism: 'political blackness'.
Ramamurthy documents how by the late 1980s this broad based black identity disintegrated as Islamophobia became a new form of racism and how in the process the legacy of the Asian Youth Movements has been largely hidden. Black Star retrieves this history and demonstrates its importance for political struggles today.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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