Some of [Linton Kwesi] Johnson's early work was centered on black consciousness, but today his vision is more universal.  "I'm not into this black, black, black thing," he says. 

Billboard, April 1993

• Fred D'Aguiar, "Against Black British Literature"
• Stuart Hall, "New Ethnicities"
• Paul Gilroy, "The Peculiarities of the Black English"

• Fred D'Aguiar, "Gift of a Rose" and "Home"
• Interview with Ted Slade (The Poetry Kit)
• Bio-bibliography from EducETH (includes RealVideo clips of an interview with Caryl Phillips from the Roland Collection)
• Biography and Bibliography (Contemporary Writers)

Paul Gilroy

• Paul Gilroy page (Postcolonial Studies, Emory U)
• Online articles by Gilroy:
  • "Thinking About Capitalism" (Interview with bell hooks, Z Magazine April 1996)
  • "Elton's Crooning, England's Dreaming" (Theory & Event 1:4 [1997]): the death of Diana and anxiety over British national identity
  • "London: Post Colonial City" (opening address of an Architectural Association conference of the same name, March 1999)
  • From OpenDemocracy.net: "Melancholia and Multiculture" (3 August 2004; additional articles by Gilroy on OpenDemocracy.net are available to subscribers)

Joe Lockard's review of Asian Dub Foundation's latest album, "Community Music" (in Bad Subjects) is particularly interesting in light of the final paragraphs of Gilroy's essay.  (You may also want to visit ADF's official website.)

• Diran Adebayo, excerpts from Some Kind of Black

• Biography and Bibliography (Contemporary Writers)
• Work in Progress: Adebayo talks about his film called "Birds" and his new novel on BBC Radio 3 (RealAudio files)
• "Tribal Britons should live and let live" (The Guardian 20 January 2004)
• Grant Farred, "The Postcolonial Chickens Come Home to Roost: How Yardie Has Created a New Postcolonial Subaltern," South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1 (Winter 2001).

• Jackie Kay, "So You Think I'm A Mule" and poems from The Adoption Papers  

• Jackie Kay page (Engl 240, HSU)
• Biography and Bibliography (Contemporary Writers: includes links to sound files)
• Biography and Bibliography 2 ("The Knitting Circle," South Bank University [London])
• Kay reads "Her" (RealAudio file, The Poetry Society)
• Work in Progress: Kay talks about writing short stories on BBC Radio 3 (May 2001) (RealAudio files)
• Libby Brooks, "Don't Tell Me Who I Am" (profile in the London Guardian, 12 January 2002)
• More poems by Jackie Kay:  "Maw Broon Visits a Therapist," "Paw Broon on the Starr Report," "The Broons' Bairn's Black," and "Pride" (all from Off Colour)

• Zadie Smith, from White Teeth:
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 13 

• Biography and Bibliography (Contemporary Writers)
• Random House's Zadie Smith page (includes an interview and an excerpt from Chapter 1 of White Teeth)
  • Random House's Reading Group Guide for White Teeth has lots of discussion questions--some dopey, some dope.
• Two short stories by Smith from the 1997 edition of The May Anthologies (an annual anthology of the best poetry & fiction from Oxford and Cambridge):
  • "Mrs. Begum's Son and the Private Tutor" (features early versions of White Teeth characters)
  • "Picnic, Lighting"
• The TV adaptation of White Teeth (pbs.org)
• Feature Stories from The Guardian: January 2000 | December 2000
• "From Willesden to Whitbread" (BBCi)
• Interviews
  • With Amazon.co.uk
  • With Liane Hansen (NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, June 25, 2000 - RealAudio file)
  • With Michael Silverblatt  (KCRW/Santa Monica's Bookworm, September 21, 2000 - RealAudio file)