Ebook: Familiar stranger: a life between two islands

Jamaica -- Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects -- The two Jamaicas -- Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing thinking -- Race and its disavowal -- Leaving Jamaica -- Conscripts of modernity -- Journey to an illusion -- Encountering Oxford: the makings of a diasporic self -- Caribbean migration: the windrush generation -- Transition zone -- England at home -- Politics.;With great insight, compassion, and wit Stuart Hall (1932-2014) tells how his experiences-from growing up in colonial Jamaica and attending Oxford to participating in the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain-shaped his intellectual and political work to become one of his age's brightest intellectual lights.