Small Axe (A Body of Work): 3 Education
In the first page of our materials written for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology we considered Mangrove, the first of five films about the British black (mainly West Indian) community over a period from the 1960s to the 1980s. In our second page, we considered Alex Wheatle, an eponymously named film based on the real-life story of Alex Wheatle, climaxing in the events of the New Cross Fire and the Brixton uprising...