ABSTRACT
This chapter describes weave together threads of memory and haunting pasts along with dynamics of dis-/re-placement. It shows that the rediscovery of the works of Phillips, Francis, Kenlock and Morris documents the urban life of Windrush immigrants in ways that, from their contemporary perspective, ascribe them to an unavoidable and sustained movement of instantiation. The chapter sets out towards a reflection on the intersectionalities between the Windrush legacies with other groups. The Windrush generation is doubly metonymic: the boat standing for its passengers, and for all the passengers of other boats having crossed the last stretch of the former slave trade, from the West Indies to Europe, after 1948. The Windrush generation is difficult to place and its first predicament was indeed to find lodgings. The transformation of the neighbourhood and subsequent departure of the Windrush immigrants is all but complete: there is the Carnival and its performers.
