‘But,’ says Gilroy, ‘negrophilia and negrophobia can be intertwined. [Colin] MacInnes seems to have imprisoned black people in his exotic conceptions of their blackness. […]’

We're playing scared; we're playing soft; we're getting outexecuted and outhustled, Goodman said.

8.15 am. Tooth-combed seven heads, had grand sport; mixed bag, measured one teaspoonful; cleanliness is next to godliness!

He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.