This is a political and intellectual biography of an important and controversial figure in British race politics. In recent years Darcus Howe has been a high-profile and controversial television journalist, but he also has a long history as a grass-roots activist. He moved toA the United StatesA from Trinidad in the 1960s where he was active in student committees fighting racial segregation. On arrival in Britain in the early 70s he joined the British Black Panthersa??the first Black Panther organization outside the USA.A There he attracted the attention of Special Branch, was arrested and had to defend himself at the Old Bailey. Over the next decade he was a member of a number of high profile campaigns that took on the National Front and police racisma??campaigns which led to a seismic shift in British attitudes to race and culture more generally.A The book uses Howea??s dramatic personal history as a lens through which to explore the British civil rights movement in the defining...

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