{"product_id":"colin-jones-the-black-house","title":"Colin Jones - The Black House","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Prestel\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2006\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003eEdition: 1st Edition\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003ePages: 120\u003cbr\u003eSize: 24 x 29cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Could you do something on mugging?” the Sunday Times editor asked Jones and journalist Peter Gillman in 1973. It was a time when the British press had seized on the issue of “mugging” as a means of stirring up moral panic over Black criminality, in turn creating a distraction from the crisis of capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJones and Gillman decided to focus their story on a hostel located at 571 Holloway Road. The brainchild of dynamic Caribbean migrant Herman Edwards, it served as a halfway house for vulnerable, disenfranchised Afro-Caribbean teens. Some had been thrown out by their families, while many had left school with no qualifications, finding themselves drifting in and out of the criminal-justice system. The refuge was officially called “Harambee” (Swahili for “pulling together”). But those who frequented it knew the place, rather contentiously, as “the Black House”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gully Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50638763295058,"sku":"","price":170.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0959\/0911\/8290\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_fd3c1d9f-eb36-4877-a8e4-648a8e8e722b.jpg?v=1764845623","url":"https:\/\/www.gullybooks.shop\/products\/colin-jones-the-black-house","provider":"Gully Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}