This article analyzes the print culture of the Black and multiethnic community known as L8 in the northern British city of Liverpool. Through a critique of printed materials, including newsletters, magazines, and pamphlets all written, produced and read within the locale, the author assesses the construction of a community that was at once imagined and lived. This print infrastructure facilitated a collective sense of L8 as a marker of identity and belonging in a city and a nation that otherwise often harbored racialized hostility to the residents’ economic and political interests. Such a commitment to the locale, the author asserts, became a key factor in organizing the collective action taken by the residents in the 1981 Toxteth protests. Before and after that event, the neighborhood's print culture served to justify to residents the reasons for taking violent action against the state. Equally, this source material highlights the fissures and divergences between neighbors in their deliberations over the definitions—and limitations—of such a community and its relation to the nation. The author thus offers new ways to think about Black British protest in close relation to the specific political and social dynamics of neighborhoods across Britain.

本文分析了英国北部城市利物浦的黑人和多民族社区 L8 的印刷文化。通过对印刷材料的批评，包括所有在当地编写、制作和阅读的时事通讯、杂志和小册子，作者评估了一个既被想象又被生活的社区的建设。这种印刷基础设施促进了 L8 的集体意识，作为一个城市和一个国家的身份和归属感的标志，而这个城市和国家往往对居民的经济和政治利益怀有种族敌意。作者声称，这种对当地的承诺成为 1981 年 Toxteth 抗议活动中居民组织集体行动的关键因素。在那次事件之前和之后，该社区的印刷文化向居民证明了对国家采取暴力行动的理由。同样，这些原始材料凸显了邻国之间在讨论此类社区的定义和局限性及其与国家的关系时存在的裂痕和分歧。因此，作者提供了思考英国黑人抗议与英国各地社区的具体政治和社会动态密切相关的新方法。