Readers, Writers, and Riots
Race, Print Culture, and the Public in Liverpool 8 in the Early 1980s
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10067331 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jack Webb (0000-0002-0648-4590, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 62 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 906-931 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/jbr.2023.105 |
| OpenAlex | W4388769410 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 6 |
This article analyzes the print culture of the Black and multiethnic community known as L8 in the northern British city of Liverpool. Through a critique of printed materials, including newsletters, magazines, and pamphlets all written, produced and read within the locale, the author assesses the construction of a community that was at once imagined and lived. This print infrastructure facilitated a collective sense of L8 as a marker of identity and belonging in a city and a nation that otherwise often harbored racialized hostility to the residents’ economic and political interests. Such a commitment to the locale, the author asserts, became a key factor in organizing the collective action taken by the residents in the 1981 Toxteth protests. Before and after that event, the neighborhood's print culture served to justify to residents the reasons for taking violent action against the state. Equally, this source material highlights the fissures and divergences between neighbors in their deliberations over the definitions—and limitations—of such a community and its relation to the nation. The author thus offers new ways to think about Black British protest in close relation to the specific political and social dynamics of neighborhoods across Britain
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| Citas por año | 1 |
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| Altamente citado | No |
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