Windrush Children: Separation, Reunion and Growing Up in Britain
Behind the story of postwar Caribbean migration were children waiting, travelling and learning to live with unfamiliar parents. Their accounts reveal the work of keeping families…
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Hannah Lowe: Family, Classrooms and the Work of Remembering
Read the article: Hannah Lowe: Family, Classrooms and the Work of RememberingHannah Lowe’s poetry and research have brought family stories, migration records and the lives of students into conversation with British history. Her father was a Black…
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James Berry: Poetry, Migration and the Search for Understanding
Read the article: James Berry: Poetry, Migration and the Search for UnderstandingJames Berry brought Jamaican memories and speech into a literary life built in Britain. Writing for adults and children, he explored migration, racism, poverty and the…
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George Lamming: Childhood, Exile and the Making of a Caribbean Writer
Read the article: George Lamming: Childhood, Exile and the Making of a Caribbean WriterBorn in Barbados, George Lamming helped shape Caribbean literature through novels of childhood, migration and colonial power. From In the Castle of My Skin to his…
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Caryl Phillips: Migration, Memory and the Search for Home
Read the article: Caryl Phillips: Migration, Memory and the Search for HomeRaised in Leeds after his family left St Kitts, Caryl Phillips has explored the intimate consequences of migration in fiction, theatre and essays. His writing follows…
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Sam Selvon: The Voices of the Lonely Londoners
Read the article: Sam Selvon: The Voices of the Lonely LondonersThrough novels, stories, radio plays and film, Sam Selvon brought Caribbean lives and language into the heart of British culture. His Indo-Trinidadian background and his attention…