• Biography (Wikipedia | World Literature in English)
• Rebecca Dyer, "Immigration, Postwar London, and the Politics of Everyday Life in Sam Selvon's Fiction" (Cultural Critique 52 [2002]) (HSU users only)
• Ashley Dawson, "'In the Big City the Sex Life Gone Wild': Migration, Gender, and Identity in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners" (Chapter 1 of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain) (eBrary [HSU users only] | Google Books [free preview])
• Novelist David Dabydeen speaks about The Lonely Londoners on "Open Book" (BBC Radio 4)
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen, "Liming in Trinidad: The art of doing nothing" (Folk 32 [1990]) (html | pdf with endnotes)
• Map of the "Bayswater" neighborhood of west London

On West Indian culture in Britain:

• Stuart Hall, "Calypso Kings" (The Guardian 28 June 2002):  Hall reviews the history of calypso in Britain in the 1950s
  • "Lord Kitchener steps off the Empire Windrush": part of the Guardian's series "50 key events in the history of world and folk music"
• Claudia Jones, "Mother of Carnival" and founder of the West Indian Gazette (YouTube documentary on Jones)
  • Photos from the early years of Notting Hill Carnival (London Guardian)
• Philip Nanton, "London Calling" (Caribbean Beat Sep./Oct. 2004): a profile of the long-time editor of "Caribbean Voices" (see required reading/listening at left)
• British African-Caribbean Community (Wikipedia)

On West Indian Emigration to Britain:

• Engl 350 "Black Britain" website
• S.S. Empire Windrush (Wikipedia)
• British Pathé newsreel footage of the Windrush arrival
• A sampling of photos related to "immigration" at Hulton Archives/Getty Images (not all images pertain to the immediate postwar years or to immigration from the colonies)
  • "British Colour Bar" (Picture Post 1949)
  • "Breeding a Colour Bar" (Picture Post 1952)
  • "Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?" (Picture Post 1954)
  • "British Colour Conflict" (Picture Post 1955)
  • "30,000 Colour Problems" (Picture Post 1956)
• Several pages from BBC-TV's now defunct "Windrush Season" website have migrated elsewhere:
• "Arrivals" (eight transcribed oral histories of Windrush passengers)
• "Windrush - The Passengers" (introductory essay by Mike Phillips on blacks in Britain since 1948)
• Introductory Essay on Black British Literature by Onyekachi Wambu, editor of Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain
• "Windrush: ticket to a new Britain" (Note that the sidebars contain links to readings of three poems by John Agard:  "Windrush Welcome," "Citizenship," and "Howdoyoudo." Two more poems: "Remember the Ship" and "Windrush Child")
• "Windrush: the passenger's perspective"