Post-Windrush mass migration marked another turn in the Middle Passage story.

Evidence

And when in the mid-1950s, after the Empire Windrush and the beginning of mass migration to England from the Caribbean, I met black Caribbean men and women looking for work and a place to live in the gray, wet, and inhospitable London streets—one more turn in the story of the Middle Passage and a critical moment in the formation of another displaced black diaspora—I resolved to go back, to read, read about, try to understand and to make a part of me the culture which had made me and from which I could never—and no longer wished—to escape. The central theme of Pleasures of Exile, Richard Drayton says in the preface to the new edition, is “the recovery of self”—even if it can only be recovered on the other side of the Black Atlantic. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1192

Categorization

• XREF: Frames Windrush migration as a continuation of the Middle Passage; connects directly to Paul Gilroy’s ‘Black Atlantic’ thesis which builds on these ideas.
• DEFINE: Establishes the recovery of self ‘on the other side of the Black Atlantic’ as a defining motif of colonial/disaporic subjectivity.