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Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire Waters Rob 'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George…
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'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. But the operations of race, the putting-in-place of its hierarchies, the destructions of the self that its logics entailed, exceeded only expressions of violence and hatred. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism--some seen, many disavowed.
It was not only among the illiberals, but among the liberals, that colonization continued its hold on metropolitan culture. It was in 'affection', too, that colonialism's racial visions operated. This was colonization, as Lamming would also put it, by humanity.Colonized by Humanity is a study of racial liberalism at the end of empire.
It uncovers the projects to cultivate racial integration developed in the two decades between the arrival of the Empire Windrush and