West Indies to London -- West Indian Interventions at the BBC -- London Calypso -- Ronald Moody, from Primitive to Black British -- The Race Relations Narrative in British Film -- Barry Reckord, the Race Relations Narrative, and the Royal Court Theatre
Summary
The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965 shows the progressive potential - and stultifying limits - of cultural collaboration between West Indian artists and entertainers who settled in London and the city's engines of mainstream culture