1st Edition

Blackness in Britain

Edited By Kehinde Andrews, Lisa Amanda Palmer Copyright 2016
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain. There is a long and rich history of research on Blackness and Black populations in Britain. However Blackness in Britain has too often been framed through the lens of racialised deficits, constructed as both marginal and... Read more

Introduction   Part I: Black Studies and the Challenge of the Black British Intellectual  1. The Absence of Black Studies in Britain   2. The Invisible Outsider: Reflections from Beyond the Ivory Tower   Part II: Revolution, Resistance and State Violence  3. The Case of the Two Williams: Black Revolutionists in Nineteenth Century Britain   4. Black Is a Country: Black People in the West as a Colonised Minority  5. Old and New Violence: From Slavery to Serco   Part III: Blackness and Belonging  6. Black British Writing and an English Literary Belonging  7. Grime Central! Subterranean Ground-In Grit Engulfing Manicured Mainstream Spaces  8. Is David Starkey Right or Has the Jamaican Bible Movement Lost Its Mind?: Language and Atonement   Part IV: Exclusion and Inequality in Education  9. The Ties That Bind: Questions of Empire and Belonging in Black British Educational Activism   10. The British School-To-Prison Pipeline  11. The Black Mixed-Race British Males and the Role of School Teachers: New Theory and Evidence   Part V: Black Women and the Gendering of Blackness in Britain   12. Managing Diversity: Professional And Managerial Black African Women’s Work Lives in the UK Private Sector  13. Young Black British Women: Defining a Sense of Self In Relation to Hip Hop and Dancehall Musical Genres  14. Learning from the Liminal: Conducting Health Research in African Caribbean Communities  Conclusion  15. Changing the Nature, Not Just the Face of the Academy

Biography

Kehinde Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University.



Lisa Palmer is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University.