Many may know him best for his 1981 report In The Service of Black Youth, though there has been far more work both before and since.
More importantly, Gus is a radical activist: as he says, "radical" in getting to the root of things, understanding the connection between things and not settling for easy or consensual explanations for why things are the way they are.
His book is a compilation of his speeches and writings on education, race, social action and civil unrest over the past 25 years.
These various papers illustrate how Britain has tried to come to terms with its post-war Black presence and they recount many important incidents - some of them profoundly tragic - during that period.
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