IT’S BETTER IN THE CARIBBEAN - Maryse Seigu.
Notting Hill Carnival 2023.
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CHRIS MILES ... notting hill carnival
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Soundsystem / Notting Hill Carnival, London (1988).
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The other more immediate impetus was what had happened in 1976 and again in 1977 at Notting Hill in London, where there were pitched battles for the streets between black youth and the police, particularly in 1976. We were in England at the time, although not actually at the Carnival, but we knew what had happened and we knew about the entire provocation the police had created in 1976 by infiltrating 1500 policemen into the Carnival area where in previous years there had only been a handful. They made it very clear in ‘76 that they were going to control that turf and the black youth in Notting Hill and all over the country also made it clear that the police were not going to control their turf. Looking back from, say, 1958 to 1978, when there was the first so-called Notting Hill riots, one had a 20 year span of time in which a pattern of institutional racism developed in Britain but at the same time a very clear response to that racism was also beginning to manifest itself. So it seemed very appropriate to try to make a film which reflected whatever level of understanding or consciousness there was within the black community in Britain and about how the practice of racism had developed in the last 20 years, and how that fit in historically with the practice of racism in the western world.
David Koff
David Koff, Musindo Mwinyipembe & Kalamu Ya Salaam - The Black Scholar Interviews (1979) [The Black Scholar, 10:8-9, 68-83]
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IT’S BETTER IN THE CARIBBEAN.
Maryse Seigu - The Notting Hill Carnival 2023
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phrenol0gy at notting hill carnival
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