Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Black British intellectuals race, education and social justice; 2 Early black British thinkers; 3 Post-war black education movements; 4 The schooling of the black working class; 5 Multicultural and anti-racist education; 6 Black British cultural studies; 7 Black feminism and education; 8 New critical theories of race and education; 9 'Post-multicultural' education?; References; Index
Summary
Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West. Yet Britain has its own robust black intellectual traditions and its own master teachers, among them C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy. However, while in the USA black public intellectuals are an embedded, if often embattled, feature of national life, black British thinkers remain routinely marginalized. Black British Intellectuals and Education counters t