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Recommended reading from the George Padmore Institute

A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books 1982-95 – Revisited

A Meeting of the Continents Edited by Sarah White, Roxy Harris and Sharmilla Beezmohun (New Beacon Books and George Padmore Institute, 2005)

 

Changing Britannia: Life Experience With Britain

Changing Britannia Edited by Roxy Harris and Sarah White (New Beacon Books and George Padmore Institute, 1999)

 

Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain

By Harry Goulbourne (Cambridge University Press)

 

Foundations of a Movement – tributes to John La Rose

Foundations of a Movement Edited by Roxy Harris and Sarah White (New Beacon Books, 1991)

 

History of the Voice: the development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

By Kamau Brathwaite (New Beacon Books, 1984)

 

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By Adam Hochschild (Pan Macmillan)

 

Kwame Nkurumah: A Biography

By June Milne (Panaf Books)

 

Mas in Notting Hill: documents in the struggle for a representative and democratic carnival 1989/90

Compiled by Michael La Rose (New Beacon Books, 1990)

 

Murder in the Playground: the Report of the Macdonald Inquiry into Racism and Racial Violence in Manchester Schools

By Ian Macdonald, Reena Bhavnani, Lily Khan and Gus John (Longsight Press, 1989)

 

Police Power and Black People

By Derek Humphry and Gus John (Panther, 1972)

 

Race in the Inner City

By Augustine John (Runymede Trust, 1970)

 

Racism Nazism Fascism and Racial Attacks: The European Response

Edited by John La Rose (International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books, 1991)

 

Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics

By Brian Alleyne (Berg, 2002)

 

Season of Migration to the South: Africa’s Crises Reconsidered

By Kole Omotoso (Tafelberg South Africa)

 

Selected Poems

Selected Poems - Linton Kwesi Johnson By Linton Kwesi Johnson (Penguin, 2005)

 

The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited

By Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood and George Padmore (New Beacon Books, 1995)

 

The Assassination of Lumumba

By Ludo De Witte (Verso)

 

The Association For A Peoples Carnival Newsletter (annually 1989-1997)

 

The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966-1972: a literary and cultural history

Caribbean Artists Movment By Anne Walmsley (New Beacon Books, 1992)

 

The Lonely Londoners

By Sam Selvon (Penguin Modern Classics)

 

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