Hakim Ali: Many Struggles

Pluto Press, 2023, softcover, 280 pages, 14 x 21.6 cm

The history of African and Caribbean people in Britain is centuries long. Although integral to and indivisible from ‘British history' it is usually treated as a footnote – or forgotten altogether. But with the flourishing of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, and fierce debates around the legacies of colonialism, a renewed hunger for the recovery of this history has come.

Edited by leading historian Hakim Adi, Many Struggles includes contributions from various emerging historians and scholar-activists. Covering the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries, the book reveals the long history of African and Caribbean people in Britain. Drawing on new archival research, Many Struggles emphasizes often-neglected themes such as local histories, women, gender, and political activism.