ABSTRACT
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 pathological.
Blackness in Britain attends to and grapples with the absence of Black Studies in Britain and the parallel crisis of Black marginality in British society. It begins to map the field of Black Studies scholarship from a British context, by collating new and established voices from scholars writing about Blackness in Britain. Split into five parts, it examines:
- Black studies and the challenge of the Black British intellectual;
- Revolution, resistance and state violence;
- Blackness and belonging;
- exclusion and inequality in education;
- experiences of Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain.
This interdisciplinary collection represents a landmark in building Black Studies in British academia, presenting key debates about Black experiences in relation to Britain, Black Europe and the wider Black diaspora. With contributions from across various disciplines including sociology, human geography, medical sociology, cultural studies, education studies, post-colonial English literature, history, and criminology, the book will be essential reading for scholars and students of the multi- and inter-disciplinary area of Black Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
Black studies and the challenge of the Black British intellectual
part |40 pages
Revolution, resistance and state violence
part |39 pages
Blackness and belonging
chapter |13 pages
Is David Starkey right or has the Jamaican Bible Movement lost its mind?
part |43 pages
Exclusion and inequality in education
chapter |13 pages
The ties that bind
chapter |15 pages
Black mixed-race British males and the role of school teachers
part |42 pages
Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain
chapter |13 pages
Managing diversity
chapter |14 pages
Young Black British women
chapter |13 pages
Learning from the liminal
part |14 pages
Conclusion