Colonial West Indian students in Britain / Lloyd Braithwaite.

By:

Braithwaite, Lloyd

Publication details: Mona, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2001.Description: xxxi, 291 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9766400520
9789766400521

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Colonial West Indian students in Britain.DDC classification:

378.42 B824, C719, 2001

LOC classification:

LB2378.G7 B73 2001

Summary: An intensive look at the experience of colonial students in Britain and the reaction of British society to them.Summary: This work is more than a study of the reaction to discrimination; it shows how the general picture of the problems of a group tend to be distorted by discrimination. Braithwaite explores the students' problems with the colonial officials, their social experiences, their university experiences and their political involvement.Summary: Braithwaite also considers how the experience of colonial students in Britain gave birth to a new breed of West Indian nationalism that was integral to the region's Independence Era.

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"Collected works of Lloyd Braithwaite"--Page 283.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) and index.

An intensive look at the experience of colonial students in Britain and the reaction of British society to them.

This work is more than a study of the reaction to discrimination; it shows how the general picture of the problems of a group tend to be distorted by discrimination. Braithwaite explores the students' problems with the colonial officials, their social experiences, their university experiences and their political involvement.

Braithwaite also considers how the experience of colonial students in Britain gave birth to a new breed of West Indian nationalism that was integral to the region's Independence Era.

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