London Is The Place For Me

In London Is The Place for Me, Kennetta Hammond Perry explores how Afro-Caribbean migrants navigated the politics of race and citizenship in Britain and reconfigured the boundaries of what it meant to be both Black and British at a critical juncture in the history of Empire and twentieth century transnational race politics.

Kennetta Hammond Perry is Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University.

Introduction Windrush Politics
Chapter 1 Race, Empire and the Formation of Black Britain
Chapter 2 Migration, Citizenship and the Boundaries of Belonging
Chapter 3 'Race Riots' and the Mystique of British Anti-Racism
Chapter 4 Are We to Be Mauled Down Just Because We Are Black?
Chapter 5 Exposing the Racial Politics of Immigration Controls
Chapter 6 The Limits of Campaigning Against Racial Discrimination
Epilogue Black Britain, the State and the Politics of Race