Speaking Truth To Power: The Life and Times of an African Caribbean British Man The Authorised Biography of Arthur France, MBE - Couverture souple

Farrar, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912662671 ISBN 13 : 9781912662678

Editeur : Hansib Publications Limited, 2022

Synopsis

Arthur France is someone that the establishment would prefer to keep hidden from British history. But he has made history, and this book explains how and why.

Arthur France is someone that the establishment would prefer to keep hidden from British history. But he has made history, and this book explains how and why. He was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Nevis and arrived in Leeds in the north of England in 1957. He soon began to organise members of the local Caribbean community into a united force for social progress and was awarded an MBE in 1997. But Arthur France is best known as the founder of the first Black-led Caribbean Carnival in Europe. This was in Leeds in 1967, but his idea for carnival was not merely sequins and feathers ― for him, Carnival was a symbol of Emancipation and a vehicle for changing people’s lives. If Leeds is now a city that embraces diversity, it is in no small part due to Arthur France and his brothers and sisters in struggle. In telling Arthur’s story, author Max Farrar also reflects upon the struggle for justice and equality led by so many members of Britain’s Black and Brown communities. It provides the context of violent racism, including the white riots in London’s Notting Hill, the relentless provocation towards their own self-defence, and the growth of the Black Power movement. This remarkable man’s life story is a poignant narrative about ‘race’ in post-war Britain. An appendix provides a detailed history of St Kitts and Nevis from the first colonial settlement in 1624 up to independence, which was achieved on 19 September 1983.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Max Farrar has been involved in grassroots politics in Leeds, UK, since 1968. In the 1980s, he worked in further and adult education at the Harehills and Chapeltown Law Centre. He also worked for the Runnymede Trust in London and as a freelance writer/photographer. His PhD examining the Black-led social movements in Chapeltown in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, was published as The Struggle for Community (E. Mellen Press, 2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hansib Publications Limited
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912662671
• ISBN 13: 9781912662678
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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