CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- PART ONE: THE "BLACKAMOORES" PRESENCE (1500 -1900) -- 1. AFRICANS AND ASIANS IN THE BRITISH ISLES (1500-1833) -- BRITAIN, AFRICA AND THE WEST INDIES -- IMAGES OF 'BRITAIN' AS A NATION -- AFRICAN SLAVERY -- THE BLACK COMMUNITY (1550-1800) -- THE SIERRA LEONE EXPERIMENT -- BRITISH INDIA -- BREAKING FREE (1780s-1820s) -- 2. AFRO-ASIANS AFTER EMANCIPATION (1833-1900) -- BRITAIN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AN HISTORICAL OUTLINE -- ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND WALES -- INDIA -- THE COLONIAL LABOUR PROBLEM -- EMIGRATION WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE -- EAST INDIAN INDENTURESHIP: THE 'NEW 'SLAVERY -- HEROIC PERSONALITIES -- ASIANS IN BRITAIN -- BLACK PERFORMERS AND 'BLACKFACE' (MINSTRELSY) -- RESISTANCE: THE AFRICAN AND ASIAN INTELLIGENTSIA -- EARLY REPRESENTATION AND RESISTANCE FROM THE INDIAN EMPIRE -- PART TWO: BRITAIN AND EMPIRE (1900-62) -- BRITAIN: AN HISTORICAL OUTLINE (1900-56) -- DEVELOPMENTS FROM 1930 TO 1956 -- 3. RACISM, EMPIRE AND LABOUR -- THE ABOLITION OF THE SYTEM OF EAST INDIAN INDENTURE -- BRITISH LABOUR AND IMPERIALISM -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF EMPIRE: CARDIFF AND LIVERPOOL -- WALTER TULL -- THE TIGER BAY COMMUNITY -- INDIANS BEFORE AND AFTER THE TWO WORLD WARS -- THE DEVELOPING COMMUNITY -- 4. AFRO-ASIAN CHALLENGES (PRE-1962) -- INDIAN NATIONALISTS IN BRITAIN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- SHAPURJI SAKLATVALA -- KRISHNA MENON -- LEADING PANAFRICANISTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- NEWCOMERS (1950-62) -- THE RIOTS OF 1958 -- IMAGES OF BLACK PEOPLE IN FILMS AND TELEVISION (PRE-1960) -- PART THREE: THE EMPIRE WITHIN (1956-98) -- AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1956 to the Early 1990s) -- THE THATCHER YEARS -- THE MAJOR YEARS -- 5. THE MIGRANT WORKERS' STORY -- THE INDO-CARIBBEAN PRESENCE IN BRITAIN -- STRUGGLES AT WORK: FROM THE 1970s TO THE 1980s -- GRUNWICK: THE STRIKE.

CARIBBEAN WOMEN: NURSES AND ANCILLARY WORKERS -- AFRO-ASIAN WORKERS AND THE BRITISH TRADE UNION MOVEMENT -- 6. MIGRANTS IN TRANSITION AND AUTHORITARIANISM (1960-89) -- ASIANS: MOVING ON (PRE-1970s) -- YOUNG ASIANS -- ASIANS: POST-1970 DEVELOPMENTS -- BLACK YOUTH -- BLACK PEOPLE AND THE POLICE -- 7. MIGRANT COMMUNITIES: LEADERS AND GROUPINGS (1960-89) -- THE TIGER BAY COMMUNITY -- THE 'STANDING CONFERENCE' AND THE 'CAMPAIGN AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION' -- APPROACHES FROM THE TOP: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION -- BLACK CHURCHES -- ASIAN WORKERS AND COMMUNITY CONCERNS BEFORE 1970 -- ASIANS IN THE 1970s AND 1980s: THE WORKERS' STRUGGLE -- ENTERPRISE AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM -- THE INDO-CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY: THE 1970s TO THE 1980s -- RUDY NARAYAN -- AFRO-ASIAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: THE 1970s AND 1980s -- THE BLACK WOMEN'S MOVEMENT -- ASIANS IN THE 1980s -- 8. TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE 1990s -- A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND -- ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE 1990s -- REIMAGING BRITAIN: LITERARY AND ARTISTIC IDENTITY -- NOTES -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Africans and Asians in the British Isles -- Chapter 2 Afro-Asians after Emancipation -- Britain: An Historical Outline -- Chapter 3 Racism, Empire and Labour -- Chapter 4 Afro-Asian Challenges -- An Historical Overview of the United Kingdom -- Chapter 5 The Migrant Workers' Story -- Chapter 6 Migrants in Transition and Authoritarianism -- Chapter 7 Migrant Communities: Leaders And Groupings -- Chapter 8 Towards the Millennium:Ethnic Minorities in the 1990s -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.