Windrush Echoes: Issue 10

by Gail Lewis, Lola Young

Under the guest editorship of Gail Lewis and Lola Young, Windrush Echoes examines the legacy of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Dock in 1948. Where recent commemorations have looked back with misty-eyed nostalgia, Windrush Echoes looks beyond the poignant images of nervous, travellers stepping ashore to analyze the effects of their arrival on contemporary British life fifty years on.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Gail Lewis is a British writer, psychotherapist, researcher, and activist. She is visiting senior fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics, and Reader Emerita of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, London. She trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.
Lewis's work is rooted in black feminist and anti-racist struggle, and a socialist, anti-imperialist politics. She was a co-founder of the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD), and she was a member of the Brixton Black Women's Group. She was a founding collective editorial member of the Feminist Review. Lewis was interviewed for the oral history project "Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation", archived at the British Library, a project that interviewed "feminists who were at the forefront of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 80s".