...Eddie Chambers This text explores some of the ways in which press photographs have visualized key episodes of rioting involving Black people in the English cities of London and Birmingham. These range from the Notting Hill riots of 1958 through the riots that took place in Birmingham, Brixton...

... Afroland where Brixton and Port of Spain, Harlem and Harare, San Afro Red Web, 2002-2003. Oil paint, polyester resin, glitter, map pins and elephant dung on linen. Juan and St. George's, coalesced in one With two elephant...

... appear in the film, such as the replica of her Brixton living room. Here, a television monitor broadcasts excerpts from the film, including a lively conversation between Gilane Tawadros and Sonia Boyce about the connection between the Brixton riots and cultural and creative resistance, filmed...

... allegiance to nation, gender, and religion — unfold indepen- Ateliers in Amsterdam, I was still experimenting with video, dent of identity politics. I spoke with Ndiritu in June 2011 at just trying installation — her studio in Brixton about these issues and her filmmaking career...

... a mural commissioned by the Greater London Council to honour the strength of the Afro-Caribbean community. The Dream, the Rumour and the Poet s Song (1985) was located in an open public space on Dexter Square in Brixton.15 The mural represented the artists shared commitment to capturing the resilience...

... homes are full of tears and fighting Black people have small IQ s Donald Rodney, wall text from Doublethink New Cross Massacre, a heavily contested tragedy some believe was a racist arson attack that claimed the lives of thirteen young black partygoers, followed by the Brixton Riots.2 Both...

... it tries to fit ev­ erybody in. For instance, the inclu­sion of Njideka Akunyili Crosby s Remain, Thriving (2018), a mural for the Brixton Underground station that depicts a family of the Windrush generation, feels forced, especially due to the lack of reference to other transatlantic conversations between...

... to suggest that it can be in Brixton and elsewhere. Anumberof New Labourfig• periodizing changes totheeconomic andpoliti• resolved at thoselevels, in that decaying hallof ureswere associated withthis development thoughthe cal...

.... 36 Northern England in 2001.” In his Omeros, Wal- 6 The quoted lines appear in the second paragraph of chap- cott had associated “terrors” with the Brixton riots ter forty-two, “The Whiteness of the Whale,” Hershel Parker and of 1981: “whitewashing the walls of Brixton, dark...

... Gilane Tawadros sip wine and talk about the community developed by artists living in Brixton squats in the 1980s. Boyce tells Tawadros that the only way to fight back at the time was through cultural resistance; Black artists had no intention of leaving Britain. The film Les rêves intermixes fiction...

..., Making History, documentary, written and directed by Caecilia Tripp and Karen McKimmon (New York: B3Media Brixton, 2008). Many thanks to Caecilia Tripp. 27 See Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt (1990; repr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1903). 28 The project was called...

...- fessional and first-time actors in a neorealist style, all set to a tight Brixton-Caribbean groove. 4 After years of living in London, Tony s frantic mother Bopsie (Lucita Lijertwood) laments that she still cleans for white homeowners. She, like many wom- en of color during that era, worked as a domestic...

... (modernists) and skin- Kingston, Jamaica, coinciding with the popular rise head subcultures in the 1960s.36 The spaces where of rocksteady music, dancehall celebrations, and these subcultures encountered each other included sound-system dances. “They were mostly unem- the Ram Jam club in Brixton, where...

... the artist and International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK. © Kimathi Donkor Brixton, South London.”28 In reference to this work, to sugar and the plantation economy while also sym- which occupies the geographical terrain of Scotland bolically associating black bodies with consumption with regard...