Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Chapter One - De street weh dem seh pave wid gold Chapter Two - The Black 70s Chapter Three - Rasta This and Dreadlocks That Chapter Four - Leggo de Pen Chapter Five - Africa: The Call of the Continent Chapter Six - Fyah! Chapter Seven – Picture on the Wall Chapter Eight - Failing the Cricket Test Chapter Nine – Conclusion - (Dawning of a) New Era

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A fascinating story of extraordinary artists who have frequently been overlooked or ignored in dominant histories of British art and culture of the 20th century.

About the Author

Eddie Chambers is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he teaches the art history of the African Diaspora. He gained his Ph.D. from Goldsmiths College, University of London and between 2003 and 2009 he was a Visiting Professor, Art History, at Emory University, Atlanta. Since the early 1980s Eddie Chambers has been organizing and curating artists' exhibitions in Britain and a range of other countries, including the US, Australia and Jamaica. He is the author of Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s (I.B.Tauris, 2014).