Literary AO3: Lonely Londoners

Daniel on taking out white women to expensive places: "I want them to feel good that we...

...coloured fellars could take them to these places"

White women who go with black men: "they want you to live up to the films and stories you hear...

...about black people living primitive in the jungle" (Queenie + Michael/Gilbert)

Poverty: "Everybody turning out their pockets for this shilling...

...that would mean the difference between shivering and keeping warm"

Unease and confusion: "it had a real unrealness about London,...

...with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city"

Culture shock and bewilderment: Galahad in a crowded London street felt "a feeling of loneliness and...

...fright come on him all of a sudden"

Disassociating from one's race: Bart (lightskin) "go around telling everybody...

...that he is a Latin-American" But ultimately the experience of racism and hardship leads Bart to place himself back with the black immigrants and accept his position

"Everybody doing something or going somewhere...

...is only he who walking stupid"

How does Tanty's character show that the host country is altered by the experience of immigration?

By introducing the practise of using trust and credit in shops because that's how she does things at home- at first the shopkeeper is resistant but then he adopts her practise and everyone likes it

"we only want to get by...

...we don't even want to get on"

"they only laughing...

...because they afraid to cry"

London is "divide up in...

...little worlds" "you stay in the world you belong to"

In London "they tolerate you yes, but you can't...

...go in their house and eat or sit down and talk"

"Jamaicans start to...

...invade Britain"

Galahad defending his patois:

"is English we speaking"

Moses: "we is...

...British subjects"

There's a 'Jamaican fellah' in Brixton who....

..."let out rooms to the boys" --Brixton setting, home ownership

"the boys all

...over London"

"big discussion going on in....

...parliament about the situation"

"English people starting to make a rab...

...about how too much West Indians coming to the country"

"called names such as...

...dirty Arab, when I'm not even Arab Yazz"

"as if a forlorn shadow of doom fall...

...on all the spades in the country" --The Lonely Londoners ending