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Coming of Age : 1976 and the Road to Anti-Racism

Coming of Age : 1976 and the Road to Anti-Racism by Jagdish Patel and Suresh Grover

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Top left :Ben Okri, James<br />

Kelman <strong>and</strong> Kole Omo<strong>to</strong>so at<br />

<strong>the</strong> prose evening, Camden<br />

London, 23 March 1990<br />

Top right :John La Rose 1981<br />

by Toni Gor<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Middle left :<br />

Cover <strong>of</strong> his selected<br />

writings. His work explores<br />

John La Rose explores what<br />

Lin<strong>to</strong>n Kwesi Johnson calls in<br />

his introduction “<strong>the</strong><br />

conjunction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> personal<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> political”, <strong>to</strong> give an<br />

alternative global his<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

where “<strong>the</strong> writer <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

crowd have emerged <strong>to</strong> play<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir roles on <strong>the</strong> stage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

world.”<br />

Middle right : John La Rose<br />

with Lin<strong>to</strong>n Kwesi Johnson.<br />

Pic: Guy Farrar<br />

Bot<strong>to</strong>m right : Vic<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

demonstration on <strong>the</strong> way <strong>to</strong><br />

Hornsey Police station after<br />

Cliff McDaniel case 1975 (North<br />

London school boy beaten<br />

outside school by police)<br />

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