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Black British History
Black British History: New Perspectives | Hakim Adi
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For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London a hub of radical, Pan-African ideas. But while there has been a growing interest in this history, there has been little recognition of the sheer breadth and diversity of the Black British experience, until now. This collection combines the latest work from both established and emerging scholars of Black British history. It spans the centuries from the first Black Britons to the latest African migrants, covering everything from Africans in Tudor England to the movement for reparations, and the never ending struggles against racism in between. An invaluable resource for both future scholarship and those looking for a useful introduction to Black British history, Black British History: New Perspectives has the potential to transform our understanding of Britain, and of its place in the world.
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"In 1958...the circulation of popular stereotypes about the sexual and economic threat that West Indian men in particular posed, they [the Tory government] were able to leverage a type of media fiction about the problem that the growing presence of black newcomers posed for the white working class to justify the need for implementing migration controls." ?

Yeah, so, thank goodness that's no longer a thing! ?

TrishB Good job we passed that point…… 7mo
Bookwomble @TrishB Yes, fortunately, the current leadership of the Conservative Party and their grass roots support are so much more progressive 😒 7mo
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Black British History: New Perspectives | Hakim Adi
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

"Africans were William Shakespeare's countrymen."

- 'Blackamores' have their own names in early modern England, by Onyeka Nubia. The first essay proposes that the appearance of Black people in the historical record should not, as is apparently the tendency, be automatically coded as slaves or captives, as the evidence presented is strongly suggestive of early modern English Black people having their own identity ⬇️

Bookwomble ... and agency, and that the 'slave narrative' is an historical revision to justify later racist ideologies.
Nubia's lecture on the subject is available on You Tube. I made the rookie error of reading some of the comments which, given the subject, was a terrible mistake I'd caution you against making 😬
https://youtu.be/xYgMpi6WYNM?si=q_FU9V1SzzojH4Qz 7mo
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Black British History: New Perspectives | Hakim Adi
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"It would appear that the main function of the British press is to PRESS down on those who don't think."

- From the 1939 version of the Manifesto Against War, issued by the International African Service Bureau.

Thankfully, things are so much different now ?

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