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The use of symbolism is so thought provoking - the factory, the “optic white”, the basement, Lucius Brockway, the explosion, the machine, and Buckeye the Rabbit. You can’t help but pause and reflect.

The character Mr Bledsoe, needs to be studied.

The character, Mr Bledsoe, needs to be studied!

Adi’s central argument is that the colour bar was not an accidental or individual prejudice, but a structural tool used to maintain the hierarchies of the British Empire within the "Mother Country" itself. Britain claimed to be fighting against Nazi racism while maintaining its own colour bar at home.

There’s a lot to unpack. His grandfather’s advice "overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins" is fully seen. The ultrarich treat everything, even people, as commodities.

The idea that there was no slavery or human trafficking in the UK, can be debunked by court documents and newspaper articles.

It’s sad that Jones (along with others) doesn’t get the recognition she deserves for all her work on “women, race and class’’ analysis.

Ruminating and agreeing on the section “Relocating Claudia Jones in U.S. Black Feminist Thought”, “the absence of a geopolitical approach to black identity” is “a blind spot regarding third world feminisms,”