• Paul Gilroy, Chapter 3 of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
• Enoch Powell, "Immigration"

• Photos taken during and after the Notting Hill riots (1958)
• Black Books: The Story of Britain's First Black Book Shop
• Paul Gilroy page (Postcolonial Studies, Emory U)
• "Cosmopolitanism, Blackness, and Utopia: a Conversation with Paul Gilroy" (Transition 98 [2008]) (HSU users only)
• Online articles by Gilroy:
  • "Elton's Crooning, England's Dreaming" (Theory & Event 1:4 [1997]): the death of Diana and anxiety over British national identity
  • "London: Post Colonial City" (opening address of an Architectural Association conference of the same name, March 1999)
  • From OpenDemocracy.net: "Melancholia and Multiculture" (3 August 2004, part of a debate entitled "Multiculturalism: Translating Difference." OpenDemocracy.net also features several other articles by Gilroy)
  • "Multiculture in times of war: an inaugural lecture given at the London School of Economics" (Critical Quarterly 48:4 [Winter 2006]) (HSU users only)
• Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech
  • Context & analysis from Wikipedia
  • BBC Documentary marking the 40th anniversary (2008) of Powell's speech (Part 1)
• "Keep Britain White" (YouTube): footage purportedly from a late 1970s film made for Channel 4 in Britain but banned

• Linton Kwesi Johnson, "Street 66," "Five Nights of Bleeding," and "Sonny's Lettah"
• Benjamin Zephaniah, "Dis Policeman Keeps on Kicking Me to Death," "Big Time Gangsters," "The Sun"
• Buchi Emecheta, excerpts from Second-Class Citizen
  
  
• Other relevant poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson: "New Craas Massakah"; "Want fi Goh Rave" (lyrics | recording)

Related Texts

• Valerie Bloom, "Yuh Hear Bout?" (Valerie Bloom: Wikipedia | British Council Literature | Poetry Archive)
• E. A. Markham, "A Mugger's Game" (E.A. Markham: Wikipedia | British Council Literature | Poetry Foundation | Poetry Archive)
• James Berry, "In-a Brixtan Markit" and "Confession" (James Berry: Wikipedia | British Council Literature | Poetry Archive)
• Mark Sebba, "How do you spell Patwa?" (Critical Quarterly 38.4 [1996])

• Linton Kwesi Johnson links
• LKJ's first appearance on BBC DJ John Peel's influential program, 1979

• Benjamin Zephaniah's Website (includes written and performed versions of several poems)
• Profiles & Bibliographies: British Council Literature | BBC H2G2 | Wikipedia | Kate Kellaway, "Dread poet's society" (Sunday Observer, 4 November 2001) | Marcel Berlins, "Poetic Justice" (London Guardian, 20 November 2000)
• Interviews:  Socialist Review (Weyman Bennett & Judith Orr, June 2008) | Democracy Now! (Amy Goodman, September 2010)
• Feature story on Zephaniah from BBC Radio 4
• "Banana Skin: The Metropolitan Police" (London Guardian 4 July 2001): The Met runs afoul of Zephaniah
• "Easy Going," a travel article on Jamaica written by Zephaniah for the Sunday Observer (20 January 2002)
• "What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us," an original poem commissioned by the London Guardian (24 February 1999)
• Two poems (in RealAudio) from BBC Arts' Poetry:Out Loud site: "Miss World" and "Talking Turkeys"
• BBC News: "Black poet spurns OBE [Order of the British Empire award]" (includes link to audio file, "I've been fighting against this Empire all my life")

Buchi Emecheta

• Biographies: British Council | Wikipedia
• Interview with Susheila Nasta (The Roland Collection)

Further Resources

Dread, the Next Generation: The Stephen Lawrence murder (1993) and the MacPherson Report (1999)

• The Lawrence Inquiry (thorough history & background from the BBC, including audio & video clips)
• The London Guardian's Stephen Lawrence website, with continuing updates on the twenty-year aftermath of the murder and the official report

"I am not de problem": Benjamin Zephanian on Modern Racism (BBC Newsnight, December 2015): "Exactly 50 years after the introduction of the Race Relations Act, Zephaniah looks at whether racism in the UK has diminished or just evolved."