Homecoming : voices of the Windrush generation
Grant, Colin, 1961-2020
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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.
Main title:
Homecoming : voices of the Windrush generation / Colin Grant.
Author:
Grant, Colin, 1961-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2020.
Collation:
309 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784709136 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.00496972900922941.0049941.004969729009941305.8941.004941.004969
LC class:
DA125.W4
Local class:
305.8
Language:
English
Subject:
West Indians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryHistoryGreat Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th centuryWest Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-History
BRN:
2710252