Event 222
Imaobong Umoren talks to Paterson Joseph
Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
– Meadow Stage
Gain a new understanding of the British Empire and its enduring entanglement with the Anglophone Caribbean with historian Imaobong Umoren, in conversation with actor and author Paterson Joseph. In her book Empire Without End, Umoren starts with European contact with the Caribbean and ends today, looking at the impact and legacies of racial slavery through to the end of colonialism, and its replacement with neo-colonialism.
Umoren is an associate professor of International History at the London School of Economics where she specialises in histories of racism, women and political thought in the Caribbean, Britain and US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empire Without End received the 2020–21 British Library Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award.
