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Rediscovered on my shelves and recommended to the forum is 'Home Front', a collection of 160 photographs of Handsworth in the early 1980s by Derek Bishton and John Reardon. It has an introduction by Salman Rushdie and was published by Jonathan Cape in 1984; secondhand copies are available on the internet.
From the blurb: "Handsworth is a unique area. Jamaicans rub shoulders with Punjabis; the old white ladies from the cake shop queue in the post office alongside Bengali seamen and Bangladeshi cooks. On Sunday, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Rastafarians, Hindus, Catholics and Pentecostalists together with many others sing praises to a God who appears in many forms and guises. In the schools and on the streets a new generation of Britons with a cultural heritage stretching from Kingston to Karachi are beginning to make their voices heard."
From the blurb: "Handsworth is a unique area. Jamaicans rub shoulders with Punjabis; the old white ladies from the cake shop queue in the post office alongside Bengali seamen and Bangladeshi cooks. On Sunday, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Rastafarians, Hindus, Catholics and Pentecostalists together with many others sing praises to a God who appears in many forms and guises. In the schools and on the streets a new generation of Britons with a cultural heritage stretching from Kingston to Karachi are beginning to make their voices heard."
