Homecoming by Colin Grant

Author:Colin Grant [Grant, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473559981
Publisher: Random House

Viv Adams

Not everybody was so welcoming. No scratch that. Hardly anybody else was as welcoming. The truth is it was a virulent time. Something was happening in the country. Something was causing a souring of the way in which people generally felt. The headlines were pretty vociferous so that you couldn’t ignore it. The establishment coarsened the way in which race was viewed, and gave licence to ordinary people’s assumptions that black people were pariahs.

Wallace Collins

Jamaican Migrant, 1965

The ordinary man in the street was bellowing against the migrant like cantankerous fishwives … Everything seemed hopeless, panic was everywhere whenever a black face showed … It seemed to me that the English had dropped their politeness, their sympathy for the dark ignoramus, and came to terms with themselves that the migrant was a potential challenge to their security and social standing, and they reacted with bold belligerence.4

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