Description
'Pursuing the Dream' is a biopic that speaks of a specific journey by sea from the Caribbean to Britain during the early 1960s, and at a period when peoples from the various colonised English-speaking West Indian islands were being invited to join the British workforce in re-building of the country following destructions that resulted from World War 2.
The specific request resulted in large numbers of mostly disadvantaged young West Indians grasping the once in a life-time opportunity of a being enabled to obtain lucrative earnings in return for services rendered.
Set on a backdrop of historical and biographical factors, the story offers a window into the occurrences, encounters, experiences and interpersonal relationships that evolved within a specific community that was developed in the closed environment of a ship, during an eventful three-week crossing of the Atlantic by individuals with the collective dream of a better life.
Author: Jean Bovell
Publisher: Dolman Scott
Published: 09/30/2020
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781911412991
ISBN10: 191141299X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- History | Americas (North Central South West Indies)
- Travel | Caribbean & West Indies
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