Homecoming : voices of the Windrush generation /
by Grant, Colin [author.].
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BookPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2019Description: 309 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781787331051 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 305.8 GRASubject(s): West Indians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | History | History | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century | West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-Summary: When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. 'We're here because we're here', his father would say, 'You have some place else to go?'. But now, seventy years after the arrival of ships such as the Windrush, this generation of pioneers are ready to tell their stories. 'Homecoming' draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s.
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When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. 'We're here because we're here', his father would say, 'You have some place else to go?'. But now, seventy years after the arrival of ships such as the Windrush, this generation of pioneers are ready to tell their stories. 'Homecoming' draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s.
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