by Marjorie H Morgan © 2017
The
history of Caribbean Britain cannot be considered separately from that of the
rest of the world. The Caribbean people in Britain are
closely bound to their ancestral homes in the Caribbean and Africa.
Also the British and Caribbean links to other countries, through trade,
politics, migration, war and cultural shifts of all kinds, has affected the
collaborations, interests and struggles of the people portrayed in this blog.
This is where we will analyse the migration history of black Caribbeans who have created
their own unique mobile culture.
The
Africans who were transported to the Caribbean by the British and
then relocated to Britain are historically the most dislocated people
of the Empire. They have been displaced and dislodged and travelled further
within the Empire than any other group of peoples.
This
blog will documents the lives and achievements of people who migrated from the
Caribbean, and people of Caribbean heritage who have lived and worked in
Britain between 1960 and 2000. Existing within the heart of the old British
Empire these people have been ‘40 years in the wilderness’ and they have their
own stories to tell.
This
is a Caribbean Cultural and Biographical Directory: an intersection of history and geography.
Each decade will be discussed in a series of separate entries that will
be introduced with an outline of the relevant political and social conditions
in Britain and the Caribbean of that period. Significant births, events, and
deaths of each decade are noted with major event entries appearing in date
order. This is followed by a more detailed summary of events in the six areas
of Arts and Entertainment, Business, Media, Politics, Society, and Sport. The
individual entries in the biographical section which follows can then be better
understood when cross-referenced to these entries.
The
biographical entries will be linked to the six areas noted above: each
entry in these sub-sections refers to an individual. The people referred to are
descendants or migrants from the black Caribbean who have lived in Britain.
In the framework of this directory the term ‘black’
refers to any individual or group whose identity is defined by reference to
visibility in relation to the effects of racial discrimination. This racial
discrimination may be on the grounds of their colour, culture, nationality or
religious practices. The term ‘black’ incorporates people and groups from
evident minority communities, including those with African
and / or Asian origins.