Goulbourne, Harry

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GOULBOURNE, Harry

GOULBOURNE, Harry. British/Jamaican, b. 1948. Genres: Politics/Government, Race relations, Sociology. Career: Assistant teacher, London, 1971-72; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, senior lecturer, 1975-80; University of the West Indies, Jamaica, senior lecturer, 1980-86; University of Warwick, UK, principal research fellow, 1986-94; Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, professor of political sociology, 1994-98; South Bank University, London, professor of sociology, 1998-. Publications: Teachers, Education, and Politics in Jamaica, 1892-1972, 1988; Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain, 1991; Race Relations in Britain since 1945, 1998; Caribbean Transnational Experience, 2002. EDITOR: Politics and State in the Third World, 1979; (with L. Sterling) Social Sciences and Caribbean Society, 2 vols, 1985; (and contrib.) Black Politics in Britain, 1990; (with R. Cohen, and contrib.) Taking Democracy Seriously: Socialists and Democracy in Africa, 1992; (with M. Chamberlain) Caribbean Families in the Atlantic World, 2000; Race & Ethnicity: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 2001. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to professional journals. Address: Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA, England. Online address: [email protected]