The Windrush Thinkers and Artists - Richard Drayton

00:00 // Introduction: Windrush Scholars and Artists 02:00 // The Empire Windrush Docks at Tilbury 04:00 // Colonial Identity and Racial Inequality 05:00 // Cricket, Culture and Caribbean Pride 07:00 // George Lamming: Writing in London 09:00 // Colonial Violence and the British State 11:00 // Political Theatre and the Barbados Crowd 13:00 // Rethinking Intellectual History 16:00 // Education as Liberation in the Colonies 18:00 // Literary Journals and Caribbean Awakening 21:00 // Frank Bowling and Stuart Hall 24:00 // C.L.R. James and Pan-Africanism 26:00 // West Indians in World War II 29:00 // West Indian Students in Britain 32:00 // Race and Racism in British Society 36:00 // C.L.R. James Returns to Trinidad 38:00 // Claudia Jones: Race, Gender and Class 39:00 // The First London Caribbean Carnival 43:00 // John La Rose and New Beacon Books 45:00 // The Legacy of Windrush Intellectuals London in the 1950s and 60s was a crucible in which West Indian writers, artists, thinkers and scholars imagined new futures for the Caribbean, Britain and the world. Some were students, others were refugees from colonial societies too poor to support professional intellectuals, which forced out dangerous minds. C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, Stuart Hall, V.S. Naipaul, John LaRose and Frank Bowling are only the best known of a generation which negotiated the cultural decolonisation of both the Caribbean and Britain. This lecture was recorded by Richard Drayton on 26 October 2020. Richard is a Gresham College lecturer for 2019-20. Born in Guyana, he went to school in Barbados, and was later educated at Harvard, Yale and Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, Virginia, Cambridge and since 2009 at Kings College London, where he is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History. He is a leading international figure in the fields of Imperial and Global History, and has held visiting appointments at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Harvard University, the Advanced Research Collaborative of the City University of New York, Ludwig Maximilian University and All Souls College, Oxford. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://gres.hm/windrush-thinkers Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/ Website: https://gresham.ac.uk Twitter:   / greshamcollege   Facebook:   / greshamcollege   Instagram:   / greshamcollege