Louise L Bennett

Britain's Debt to the Windrush Generation

• re so many gone to foreign, as Jamaicans say, that it spawned a joke: the last one out should turn off all the lights on the Island. This was a trope taken up by the Jamaican poet and folklorist Louise Bennett, who saw a poetic justice in West Indians colonizin Englan in reverse.In retrospect, West Indians came not to colonize England in reverse, as Louise Bennett had it; rather, they decolonized England itself. Their influx heralded the end of the forelock-tugging tradition of working-class deference to social betters; they helped propel working-class culture from the marg
• Date: Apr 24, 2018
• Category: World
• Source: Google