Some of [Linton Kwesi] Johnson's early work was centered on black consciousness, but today his vision is more universal.  "I'm not into this black, black, black thing," he says. 

Billboard, April 1993

• Fred D'Aguiar, "Against Black British Literature"
• Stuart Hall, from "The Question of Cultural Identity" and "New Ethnicities" (feel free to read the excerpts from the former; I'm only holding you responsible for the latter)
• Paul Gilroy, "The Peculiarities of the Black English" (this talk distills some of the work by Gilroy that we read earlier in the semester and develops it into an argument that is consonant with those of Hall and D'Aguiar)

• Fred D'Aguiar, "Gift of a Rose" and "Home"
• Fred D'Aguiar: Poetry Archive | British Council Literature | Wikipedia
• Interview with Ted Slade (The Poetry Kit, 1999)
• Video: Fred D'Aguiar interviewed by Caryl Phillips (ICA/Guardian Conversations, 1988)

Stuart Hall

• Stuart Hall: Wikipedia | Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (HSU users only) | The Guardian (London)
• Homi K. Bhabha, "The Beginnings of Their Own Enunciations: Stuart Hall and the Work of Culture" (Critical Inquiry) (the section entitled "Enunciation and New Ethnicities" is most pertinent to our reading))
• Interviews: with Caryl Phillips (Bomb Winter 1997) | with Sanjay Sharma (darkmatter 2007) | with Les Back (darkmatter 2010)
• Representation and the Media (YouTube) (Spring 2005)
• Tributes to Hall (Lawrence & Wishart | Soundings)

Paul Gilroy

• Paul Gilroy : Postcolonial Studies (Emory U) | Wikipedia
• "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)

Other Stuff

• Joe Lockard's review of Asian Dub Foundation's album, "Community Music" (in Bad Subjects) is particularly interesting in light of the final paragraphs of Gilroy's "The Peculiarities of the Black English."  (You may also want to visit ADF's official website.)
• George Shire, Introduction to a special 2008 issue of Soundings entitled Race, Identity, and Belonging: "Race in Neo-Liberal Times"
• Guy Aitchison reviews Race, Identity, and Belonging

• Diran Adebayo, excerpts from Some Kind of Black

• Diran Adebayo: British Council Literature | Official Website
• Work in Progress: Adebayo talks about his film called "Birds" and his new novel on BBC Radio 3 (RealAudio files)
• John Cunningham, "Of Wodehouse and Wood Green" (profile in the London Guardian)
• "Young, gifted, black...and very confused" (The Observer 25 November 2001) | "Tribal Britons should live and let live" (The Guardian 20 January 2004) | "Yes, after John Terry, let's talk about race. But we should do so seriously" (The Observer 15 July 2012)
• Grant Farred, "The Postcolonial Chickens Come Home to Roost: How Yardie Has Created a New Postcolonial Subaltern," South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1 (Winter 2001) (HSU users only)

• Jackie Kay, "So You Think I'm A Mule" and poems from The Adoption Papers  

• Jackie Kay: British Council Literature | Poetry Archive (with audio) | Scottish Poetry Libary | Writing Scotland (BBC2)
• Jackie Kay in the London Guardian | on YouTube | on Soundcloud
• Don't Tell Me Who I Am" (profile in the London Guardian, 12 January 2002)
• Interview with Helen Brown (The Telegraph 5 June 2010)
• Interview with Eleanor Wachtel (CBC Radio, Writers and Company 15 July 2009)
• Work in Progress: Kay talks about writing short stories on BBC Radio 3 (May 2001)
• Kay talks about her childhood--and her childhood home--on the BBC Radio 4 series The House I Grew Up In (2007)
• The Adoption Papers Book Club (The Poetry Libary, Southbank Centre)
• Katy Massey, "Jackie Kay: A Poetic Imagining of Post-Racial (Be)longing" (darkmatter 9.2 [2012])
• Jane Gray, "The Woman with the Ibo Nose and the Scottish Tongue: Expressions of Belonging and Return in Jackie Kay's Writing (Etudes Ecossaises 13 [2010])
• Jackie Kay, "Egusi Soup" (The New Yorker 24 January 2011)
• "Jackie Kay on reading out an anti-racist poem at a football ground" (Guardian 26 October 2012)
• Kay interviewed in the Scottish Review of Books (2016)

• Zadie Smith, from White Teeth:
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 13 

• Biography (Contemporary Writers | Wikipedia)
• Obsessive fansite with scads of links and annotations
• Random House's Reading Group Guide (discussion questions--some dopey, some dope)
• Website for the TV adaptation of White Teeth (pbs.org)
• Feature Stories from the London Guardian: January 2000 | December 2000
• "From Willesden to Whitbread" (BBCi)
• Sammer Rahim, "Zadie Smith's Swing Time: A Successful Return to Her Roots" (Prospect Oct. 2016, via Repeating Islands)
• Interviews
  • With Random House
  • With Amazon.co.uk
  • With Liane Hansen (NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, June 25, 2000 - RealAudio file)
  • With Michael Silverblatt  (KCRW/Santa Monica's Bookworm, September 21, 2000)
• Zadie Smith, "Dead Man Laughing" (The New Yorker 22 December 2008)
  • Podcast interview
• "Cool Britannia": The Phrase Finder | Wikipedia | World Wide Words