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DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE
Expand the Black Experience in Britain’s heritage
“Drawing on his personal web site
Chronicleworld.org and digital and print collection,
the author challenges the nation’s information
guardians to “detoxify” their knowledge portals”
Thomas L Blair
Commentaries on the
Chronicleworld.org
Users value the Thomas L Blair digital collection for its
support of “below the radar” unreported communities.
Here is what they have to say:
Social scientists and researchers at professional
associations, such as SOSIG and the UK Intute Science,
Engineering and Technology, applaud
the Chronicleworld.org web site’s “essays, articles and
information about the black urban experience that invite
interaction”.
Black History Month archived Bernie Grant, Militant
Parliamentarian (1944-2000) from
the Chronicleworld.org
Online journalists at the New York Times on the
Web nominate THE
CHRONICLE: www.chronicleworld.org as “A biting,
well-written zine about black life in Britain” and a
useful reference in the Arts, Music and Popular Culture,
Technology and Knowledge Networks.
Enquirers to UK Directory at ukdirectory.co.uk value
the Chronicleworld.org under the headings Race
Relations Organisations promoting racial equality, antiracism and multiculturalism. Library”Govt &
Society”Policies & Issues”Race Relations
The 100 Great Black
Britons www.100greatblackbritons.com cites
“Chronicle World - Changing Black Britain as a major
resource Magazine addressing the concerns of Black
Britons includes a newsgroup and articles on topical
events as well as careers, business and the
arts. www.chronicleworld.org”
Editors at the British TV Channel 4 - Black and Asian
History Map call the www.chronicleworld.org “a
comprehensive site full of information on the black
British presence plus news, current affairs and a rich
archive of material”.
SOSIG and the UK Intute also cite its “is archived
history of Afro-Caribbean settlement in London, book
reviews, a gallery of Afro-Caribbean art and links to
news services and sites of general interest to the British
Afro-Caribbean community”.
International readers and educational institutes have
emphasized the importance of the web site. German
schools’ advisors on Immigrants in Britain, say
“Chronicleworld.org Hier finden Sie viele News und
Artikel über Black Britain”. . British Council Germany
tells its readers – “First for information, news and ideas
shaping black life in modern Britain. Chronicle is the
online magazine for Britain’s black community, with
links to the best media on the web and lots of well
written features”.
The monthly top queries highlight the current topics
driving traffic to chronicleworld.org, certified by
search agency Alexa.com. January 2012, roman soldier
head carving, promote technology in the black
community, actors who have played Othello, the Stephen
Lawrence murder inquiry, Black Britain stats, London
demographics and Black and Minority Ethnic people.
Publishing information
Decolonising Knowledge: Expand the Black Experience
in Britain’s heritage
ISBN 978-1-908480-03-3
Editions Blair E-book Series
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The author Thomas L Blair is a cyberscholar and edits
the Chronicleworld.org, the online journal of Black
communities of African and Caribbean heritage.
Founded in November 1997, he offers readers
information and commentary on their problems, progress
and prospects for creative renewal.
In addition to Decolonising Knowledge, his other works
in the Editions Blair E-book series debate serious topics
in the public realm.
The Audacity of Cyberspace – on
Black communities crossing the
digital divide
Pillars of Change – Black youth
and intellectuals challenge to la
belle France 978-1-908480-00-2
Les Piliers du Changement –
French translation of Pillars of
Change 978-1-908480-01-9
FAIR MEDIA – on campaigns to
end racism in the newsrooms and
boardrooms of the media industry
978-1-908480-02-6
The right kind of spirit for a new
generation
Figure 1 Mary Seacole, Crimean war nurse and
Olaudah Equiano, scholar and abolitionist
The Voice, Britain’s top Black weekly, warns:
“removing black heroes from the curriculum in primary
and secondary school could deter undergraduates from
gaining an interest in black history and have a knock-on
effect on academic research”.
Preface
Optimistic. Quarrelsome. Trailblazing. Problem solving
idealist? Call it what you may.
However, I call it a manifesto to set the archival record
straight. Libraries and information professionals must
provide the best materials on Black communities and
talents. What can you expect to find out?
Evidence-based proposals that seek, in a diverse
society, to embed the Black experience into Britain’s
national heritage collections. Decolonising Knowledge
brings digital and printed materials on Black Britain
closer together. This could be a boon for far-sighted
educators, researchers, rights activists, and the
communities they serve.
Forging new connections
The best way to introduce this book is to explain how
the idea it expresses came to be developed.
With over 40 years of teaching from “the books”, I am
one of a growing number of online scholars publishing
for “minority interests and issues” ignored by
mainstream information professionals. Notable
examples are, of course, professors Abdul Alkalimat of
the University of Illinois, Manning Marable of Columbia
University and Naom Chomsky of MIT.
The Eureka moment
The crossover to the digital age came in 1997, when I
struggled to bring “book-learning” and the internet
together. I remember the failures and near misses as
well as the triumphs. Finally, I found that I was looking
at contemporary Black peoples in Britain in a different
way. Not at them as replacement labour, welfare cheats
or lesser breeds outside the law, as others do. But as
hard working aspirers in the big city seen through their
own urban experience and intellectual expression. I was
beginning to think about the theme of Enabling Access to
Black Britain Data sets, and creating a role for Library
and Information Professionals
Furthermore, as a sign of the times, their cultural
production and reading habits have moved from print to
pixels. As a result, communities and scholars have
created millions of gigabytes that reflect themselves, and
speak directly to Black people. “Internet power to the
people, says professor Thomas L Blair,” wrote The
Independent newspaper in London. Decolonising
Knowledge identifies this alternative view based on my
digital and print collection. It links to the cyberactions
of the Black “net-generation” who typically address
issues of politics and culture.
The Thomas L Blair collection
Decolonising Knowledge paints a picture of a minority
heritage enhancement. My appended digital and print
materials managed by the British Library puts this into
sharp focus. Called the Thomas L Blair Collection, it
offers the means to rate local, national and private
library holdings against the collections searchable
online database and cataloguing system.
My online magazine The Chronicleworld is the basis of
The Digital Collection. It has hundreds of articles,
thousands of Internet pages and a dozen volumes of
news and commentaries http://www.chronicleworld.org
from 1997 to the present. They focus on issues central to
the Black experience in arts, life styles, economy,
politics and culture. Then, I assembled a print library
collection as the web site developed. The scholarly
references raise awareness of key topics, events and
personalities. The collection includes over 1000 books,
newspaper cuttings, journal and magazine articles, along
with video and audio tape, posters, and ephemeral
material. The geographical areas and timeframe cover
peoples of the African Diaspora in Black Britain, the
Caribbean, the US and Latin America, and regions of
Africa South of the Sahara.
Celebrating the life of the mind
Decolonising Knowledge complements my view that it
is time that Black intellectuals pass their scholarship,
pride and purpose to the new Internet-generation.
Decolonising Knowledge celebrates the life of the mind
in idealistic yet practical pursuits. It recognises that
Black people in Britain are the patent-holders of their
own humanity. Modernised and transformed, they are
integral contributors to the global societies they reside
in.
In sum, Decolonising Knowledge and the Blair
Collection are natural extensions of classical Black
intellectual thought and action. But not in thrall to them.
The book brings fresh and corrective narratives to
scripts that have been based solely on western
perspectives. The result is a useful wake-up call to
Britain’s heritage enhancement institutions. Thomas L
Blair
January 2013
England
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all who helped bring this E-book into being.
First to the Social Welfare Portal at the British Library,
which manages the Thomas L Blair Collection. I owe a
great deal to the research of various disciplines
undertaken by others; these include the Third Sector
Research Centre’s research identifying the special
contribution and impact of diverse community
organisations.
Why Decolonising knowledge?
National heritage enhancement is the new buzzword in
the information professions. “We're in danger of losing
our memories”, said Lynne Brindley, head of the British
Library. Indeed, “Capturing our digital intellectual
heritage and preserving it for the long-term” is the goal
of major portals of archival and research.
Think of all those folders of photographs, e-mails and
web sites “that lie hidden on our computer’s, she wrote
in The Observer, Sunday 25 January 2009. “Few store
them, so those who come after us will not be able to
look at them. It's tragic”
INFO-POINT: British Library chief says Digital Britain at risk.
Vast scale of websites: 8 Million uk domain websites and that number,
growing at 15-20% annually.
Value for the heritage record: The websites are a pool of knowledge for
future research and innovation.
Danger signs: Web sites and internet companies are ephemeral and can
disappear in the current economic climate. Internet administrators say,
“It’s not our responsibility”.
Moreover, you can’t assume commercial organisations such as Google
are collecting and archiving this kind of material - they are not.
Problem: Hence, “the memory of the nation disappears too”. Therefore,
historians and citizens of the future will find a void in the knowledge base
of the 21st century.
Solution: The British Library director concludes the task of capturing our
online intellectual heritage and preserving it for the long-term lies with the
major national libraries and archives.
Unfortunately, this “solution” may turn out to be the
same old thing – a pageant of Kings, Queens, Kipling
and Imperial heroes rampaging across red-flagged
continents. Thereby, misrepresenting the nation as
untouched by the peopling of Britain by Black African
and Afro-Caribbeans. Search engines can only find a
given text or image that has been entered in the database.
It’s no help if the Black community and its intellectual
heritage are unreliably archived or overlooked.
Decolonising Knowledge corrects this oversight that
borders on exclusion.
The ideas and ideals
To enlarge on this point, I have identified clusters of
knowledge that stress the human factors as well as
scholarly ideas. One identifies the Black abolitionists.
They wrote the first draft of modern Black history in
its roughest days. Through rational thought and
action, they helped people speak truth to oppressive
power, a legacy that carried on down the centuries.
A second cluster explains the transformations of Black
Britain, from immigrant settlers to strivers, achievers
and elites. The surge in social media networking is now
an essential of life and living in Black African and
Caribbean communities.
Interestingly, another cluster reveals the Black scholars
– the griots of the diaspora -- who shaped the postcolonial attitudes of Black Britons. They challenge
national heritage keepers to portray the Black
experience and worldview.
Enhancing Black heritage is a major function of
Decolonising Knowledge. It directs this challenge to
librarians and information professionals dealing with
Black peoples in western societies. It highlights the new
styles of thought and practice, ethics and empirical
studies emerging in many academic disciplines.
The book concludes that information keepers need a
Decolonising Knowledge Plan and Curatorial
Fellowship to progress these ideas. It makes the case for
multi-diversity awareness about Black communities and
their intellectual heritage. To enlarge on this point, I
have appended the Thomas L Blair Collection, a new
cache of digital and print databases on the Black
Experience. With thousands of correctly labelled digital
and print publications and websites, it is a vital heritage
resource.
Using the text
Charting this multi-diversity is an activity and
experience, it has to be practised. Therefore, readers are
encouraged to use the text and well-stocked references
to:
Explore an intriguing collection of digital and print
materials.
Discover classic texts, overlooked narratives, and
unmapped resources
Download the best sources in community renewal
& social justice
In the broadest sense, Decolonising Knowledge is a
guide to the voices and intellectual heritage of the
unheard, in digital and print. It uncovers enough topics
to fill the caches of scores of university departments,
libraries and research institutions. Prominent archivists
and museum curators will benefit from the new
materials. So will information providers and users such
as authors, publishers, media corporations,
governments, and charities and voluntary groups.
Moreover, there is a treasure trove of hundreds of
project themes to keep decades of PhD students and
researchers busy. Yet, much of the book can interest
people simply concerned with embedding the Black
Experience in the making of Britain’s heritage.
Unique opportunities for change
Decolonising Knowledge celebrates the life of the mind
in idealistic yet practical pursuits. It recognises that
Black people in Britain are the patent-holders of their
own humanity. Modernised and transformed of course in
the journey across continents. Yet, the peoples of the
global Black Diaspora, that is worldwide settlements of
persons of African and Afro-Caribbean heritage, are
integral contributors to the societies they reside in.
In sum, Decolonising Knowledge and the Blair
Collection are natural extensions of classical Black
intellectual thought and action. They bring fresh and
corrective narratives to scripts that have been based
solely on western perspectives. The result is a useful
wake-up call to Britain’s heritage enhancement
institutions. Thomas L Blair
January 2013
England
The Black public intellectual
They led the way. Talented and determined men and
women have sought to relieve the burdens of their
fellows in Britain in every century since slavery.
They have told the issues, the problems and means by
which they might be resolved. In the process, they
reformed and redefined the essentially colonialist
European idea of “the intellectual”.
Decolonising Knowledge reveals the ground rules for
“capturing” their works and making them available in
perpetuity. They represent the scholarship, pride and
purpose that gifted Blacks have spread across the Black
Atlantic triangle.
Caveat canem!
However, let us be clear. The prevailing tendency is to
associate “intellectual” with Britain’s self-images: a
class of people who are rational, highly literate, well
placed and confident. As opposed to the darker races
whose cultures are routinely debased, their leaders
easily outfoxed and their people defenceless against
“capture” and enslavement.
Decolonising Knowledge argues that these false
attitudes are contagious. Therefore, they must be
prevented from tainting Britain’s national heritage
enhancement.
“Intellectuals” cannot be only university educated or
literary elites. The definition must include men and
women of ideas and action that make their mark on the
nation and the world. Their books and strategies to get
things done are as valid as the weightiest tomes in the
grandest ivy-covered halls.
What marks the Black intellectual, especially, is pride in
Black humanity. This over-arching theme appears as
palpably in letters and poetry as on the banners of
protestors on the streets. The potent combination of selfworth, group identity and duty is probably best
associated with Black Public Intellectuals. They are the
voices that accompany epochal struggles, from antislavery to liberation movements to displacement and
riotous times in Britain today.
To appreciate this, we must hold the cursor still for a
moment in order to describe and analyse history in the
making.
Black abolitionists ignited London politics
The 18th century proved of great importance in the
history of Black people. In Britain, a handful of Africans
faced with injustice, became the first Black Public
Intellectuals. Resident and successful for years in
London, Olaudah Equiano and Ottobah Cugoana, two
“gentlemen of colour”, starred in abolitionist politics in
the 1780s.
Equiano’s Narratives and Cugoana’s Thoughts and
Sentiments on the evil of slavery were explosive hits.
Their repugnance knew only one end. They dared to
challenge Britain to end the abhorrent white-over-Black
international trade of Africans to the Americas and the
West Indies.
The moral power of this protest was unstoppable.
Indeed, on the home continent, African intellectuals
formed an anti-slavery society, a revolutionary concept
in the ill-fated Gold Coast in 1784. By all accounts, it
was a brave rejection of the disputed British held
colony wrenched from the Ashanti rulers. Brave, too,
was their message to the Colonial Office in London to
end the “nefarious” slave trade.
Together, British Black and pan-African intellectuals
and “believers in the equality of all people, before God”
crippled the slave-based economic system beyond
repair.
Radicals previewed the African revolution
Pan-Africanism was the beacon for a long line of Black
intellectuals and activists. Scholars, workers and
community leaders in more than 40 organisations met in
the fifth Pan African Congress in Manchester, 1945.
Galvanised by the democratic ideologies of the World
War II, they pressed for freedom in the colonies and in
the imperialist capitals of the colonisers.
Delegates sought solutions to “The Colour Problem in
Britain”, “Oppression in South Africa” and “The
Problems in the Caribbean”. They proclaimed that race
discrimination in Britain and its colonies had no moral
authority. Furthermore, the supremacy of the Christian
Bible over African wisdom was suspect. “Schooling”
was an instrument “to pacify the natives”.
Moreover, the euro-centric social sciences of
colonialism – among them geography, literature,
economics, anthropology, politics and history -- stood
discredited.
University graduates led Africa’s redemption
Angered at this biased link between “intellectualism”
and colonialism, African students educated in the UK
constructed the political movements that would lead to
independence.
Julius Nyerere graduated from the Scottish University of
Edinburgh and took up the struggle in his colonised
homeland, Tanganyika.
The “Burning Spear” Jomo Kenyatta graduated from the
hotspot of student rebels at the London School of
Economics, and wrote the powerful anti-colonialist
tract, Facing Mount Kenya.
The marxisant Trinidadians C L R James and George
Padmore joined with Kenyatta to found the International
African Service Bureau in 1937. They aimed to raise
Black consciousness and organise worldwide Black
movements. Towering personalities invoked reason and
Black power to win independence. Kwame Nkrumah
and Nnamdi Azikiwe went to college in America, where
Black cultural nationalists preached “Negro freedom”
from bookstalls and storefront churches.
Poets matched politics in the Caribbean and
Britain
West Indian intellectuals, too, were discovering
liberating ideas and fresh political and literary
opportunities. In London, they showed that migration or
displacement they gained a vibrant new intellectual
haven.
John Jacob Thomas took up rooms in the alleyways of
dissent near the British museum to polish his debating
skills in 1889.
Marcus Garvey, the panAfricanist, wrote volumes
proclaiming Black unity against the colonial master’s
economic exploitation and cultural denigration. New
and varied voices from the Caribbean included writers
George Lamming, Jan Carew, Samuel Selvon, and Jean
Rhys. They matched in intensity the politics of Black
Londoners.
On the roll call are the cricketer Learie Constantine,
medical doctors Harold Moody and David Pitt, the
dramatist Pearl Connor and the displaced communist
Claudia Jones. All of them decoded the pretensions of
British society, its culture, the intelligentsia and literati.
Caribbean university women added a new
dimension to development
Notably, a “Caribbean consciousness” blossomed
among university-educated women in the West Indies.
The Caribbean Women’s Movement encompassed
virtually every aspect of women’s lives. These included
the family, education, culture and development.
Scholars, journalists and women from a variety of
occupations and backgrounds stood for themselves for
the first time. It was a special awakening for Black
women formerly excluded from higher education. By
1978, women were almost 70% of the students in arts
and general studies, 50% in natural sciences and 40 per
cent of the students in social sciences, according to
researchers.
Pat Ellis, a Barbadian educator, wrote of the teachers,
nurses, theatre collectives, community organisers, trade
unionists, higglers and family matriarchs who made a
difference. Movement leaders used the university
“extra-mural” departments to empower women with
vocational as well as academic subjects, she reports in
Women of the Caribbean (Zed Books1986).
Many others worked to improve women’s skills in
tending their traditional inheritance of smallholdings.
Significantly, organisers used the media technology of
the day, the chalkboard, radio and audio-visual, to
advise on women’s issues of rape and domestic
violence.
Professors and philosophers liberated
African history
The finest products of British universities are another
line of influence. They include Kenneth Dike, Ade
Ajayi, Adu Boahen, E A Ayandele, Bethwell Ogit and A
J Temu. These future history professors, firmly
implemented Africa in otherwise anglo-centric studies.
And, no wonder. They took their degrees at the
prestigious University of London colleges, the London
School of Economics, University College London, the
School of African and Asian Studies and King’s. They
studied with the brightest British students trained in the
hothouses of intellectual society.
Honoured graduates and College Fellows
paved the way
Scholars in the arts, human and sciences were a wellendowed cadre of African intellectuals educated in
Britain. At the pinnacle of excellence stood the PhDs
Kofi Busia, Kalu Ezera and Ali Mazrui in Humanities at
Oxford, and Iya Abubakar and Muhammadu Dikko in
Sciences at Cambridge.
Furthermore, Davidson Nicol of Christ’s, Cambridge
and W E Abraham of All Souls, Oxford were among the
first Africans to gain the esteemed College Fellowships
in 1956-1959.The exceptional brothers Michael and
Patrick Atiya attained similar honours.
African scholars added new perspectives to
US colleges
Then came the generation of US-educated African and
Caribbean academics. They went to top rank
universities for their PhDs or university teaching. By the
1970s, they had introduced courses in African Studies
and Development on major campuses, including
Northwestern, Boston University and the Black colleges
Howard, Fisk and Lincoln. Scholars from Kingston,
Ibadan, and Lusaka brought an international and African
perspective to campuses as distant as Amherst and
Austin.
Black Rhodes Scholars boosted Oxford’s
greatness
African and Caribbean Rhodes scholars at Oxford
reflect Black excellence in the arts, science,
communication and politics. They are perhaps the best
exemplars of intellect, pride and purpose of Black
people.
Some, no doubt, are born with extra special talents.
However, others work hard to cultivate the drive to
know, to invent and to get things done. From 1903 to
1990, nine hundred Africans gained awards out of 5000
Rhodes Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious
international graduate scholarship programmes.
Honoured Jamaicans include Norman Manley, the
intellectual and statesman, Jesus College, Oxford,
1914,Stuart Hall, the British-based cultural expert,
Merton College, Oxford, 1951, and Rex Nettleford, the
noted cultural philosopher and head of the University of
the West Indies, Oriel, Oxford, 1957. In a sign of
changing times, the 2012 Commonwealth Caribbean
Rhodes Scholar, Kiron Corenlius Neale, 22, of
Marabella, Trinidad, chose to study for a master's
degree in Environmental Change and Management.
Significantly, Black scholars deepened the pool of
knowledge and expertise that Africa and the Diaspora
needed in politics, the arts, education and the public
sector.
Conclusion
Being Black and intellectual means responding to the
freedom cry. It lights the way toward positive
development and Black heritage enhancement. It means
seeing one’s self as part of a community of historical
worth.
By their writing, speaking and persuasive skills, the
early Black public intellectuals unshackled the chains,
both physical and mental that bound them. They
displayed the habits of clarity of thought, political action
and expression, and passed on their love of truth and
justice.
Later, African students educated in Britain demonstrated
this using a distinctive mix of high-quality disciplines.
The Black liberationists honed their political and
debating skills in learning environments that encourage
questioning and social responsibility.
Upon leaving the cloistered halls, they used their
education, mobility and status to aid their afflicted
communities. Many alumni are academics, scientists and
literary figures. Some are engineers and sociologists as
well as bureaucrats and diplomats. Others have led the
development sciences of spatial planning, agriculture,
economics and human habitat.
These currents of thought and action show that Black
intellectuality undermines the myth of white-over-Black
superiority. Furthermore, historically, Black
intellectuals of talent and education have left a legacy of
pride, identity and duty for today’s Black Britons.
Useful resources
Atlas of Slavery by James Walvin, Longman 2005.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by
Olaudah Equiano, ed. by Vincent Carretta, Penguin 2003,
Thoughts and Sentiments on the evil of slavery by Ottobah
Cugoana, ed. By Vincent Carretta, Penguin 1999.
Anthony Kirk-Greene, Doubly Elite: African Rhodes Scholars
1960-1990, in Special Issue on Africans in Britain, edited by David
Killingray,
Immigrants and Minorities, Volume 12, November 1993, Number 3.
Frank Cass, London.
West Indian intellectuals in Britain edited by Bill Schwarz,
Manchester University Press and Palgrave 2003. Manchester.
Marika Sherwood, The 1945 Pan African Congress (1995). Ron
Ramdin, The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain, 1987.
Black Britain -- crucible of
transformation and change
Significantly, Black Britain’s wealth of materials
inspires new ways of looking at “being British”.
Where are they found?
They are out there in the manifestos and street graffiti,
the carefully recorded memories of the elders, and in the
files of community organisations, faith groups, charities
and self-help groups.
Moreover, in the defiant dub poetry, the theses and the
manuscripts ignored by “learned professors”.
The city is the crucible
Decolonising Knowledge offers abundant opportunity
for solid in-depth collections and studies. However,
they must be based on the best current information in
demography, communications and public opinion.
Info-point – Elements of Black urban transformations.
First, the geographical DNA of Black urbanites is highly localized within
major cities such as London, Birmingham, and Manchester and in older
areas of settlement in Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool.
Second, African and Afro-Caribbean peoples mark their presence in
neighbourhoods such as Brixton, London, called “the soul of Black
Britain”. The evidence is in their lifestyles, food, politics, hair products,
fashion, culture, music and activities with an international twist.
Third, Black youth, though born British, have family, ancestors and
political and cultural influences elsewhere. The advent of the Internet
helps unite far-flung kith and kin, in interactive electronic loops, quickly
and efficiently.
Fourth, evidence shows these characteristics are transnational. They
emerge and survive because of mutually shared advantages. They reflect
interactions between people, as opposed to being organised by the state or
some other institutions.
The chances are that within this century Black Britons
will be part of a digital African Diaspora. With a click
they will link in cyberspace the global producers and
consumers of Black culture and enterprise. The links
will grow stronger as new generations grow naturally
more informed, self confident and computer-literate.
Collecting this kind of material has value for future
research. Urban Black transformations are a prime
source for the creation of new knowledge. What is
remarkable and needs to be recorded is the whole
breadth of people who dedicate their lives to serving
their communities – from Black architects and
immigration lawyers to traffic wardens and school
caretakers to nurses to charitable and voluntary workers.
They include:
Community activators
University-Community based researchers working
for positive race relations.
Black women fighting impoverishment and
discrimination as union organisers and
campaigners for unwaged house workers
Militant youth knocking on doors urging direct
political action, community educators staffing
Black Supplementary Schools, and Black
nationalist groups such as Afrika Bantu, Nubian
Afrikan, and Rastafarians raising Marcus Garvey’s
banner “Up, ye mighty race”
Icons of progress
Unheralded engineers, mathematicians, scientists
and web innovators such as Nigerian Philip
Emeagwali and web infrastructure executives and
philanthropists, among them Mo Ibrahim.
Online reporters for Citizen’s Journals that expose
mass media stereotypes, anti-Black defamation and
political propaganda
Street pastors working to lift the burden of youth’s
tears
Promoters of fraternal alliances between media
professionals, trade unions and Black workers
Charities and organisers of voluntary groups, job
centres and housing associations;
Creators of businesses and informal kith and kin
banking systems and micro-business start-ups;
New pathways to Black progress
Civil rights leaders calling for positive change in
the nation’s institutions, economy and governance.
Guerrilla writers, ethnic and youth media outlets,
celebrities, lettered elites, broadcasters, musicians,
griots, calypsonians, poets and public intellectuals
who capture their world, surroundings and outlook
on life, and
The new Black politicians in national governments
and town halls striving to add equality to the scales
of justice and civic governance.
Writers and intellectuals
Decolonising Knowledge brings together extensive
references on the urban transformations of Black
communities. Narratives range from the migrant
voyagers of the mid-twentieth century to contemporary
polycultural Britain. It targets authors associated with
critical Black British studies.
Take a moment to read some of the leading authors
listed in the appendices. Susan Okokon celebrates the
careers of scientists, leaders, activists, artists, writers,
musicians and political leaders in Black Londoners
1880-1990.
Dr Hakim Adi writes on the history of the African
diaspora in Britain, a relatively new subject for
academic study, and in particular on the political history
of West Africans in Britain
Professor of Sociology Harry Goulbourne has written on
Race Relations in Britain since 1945, and Caribbean
Families in Britain and the Trans-Atlantic World.
Kwesi Owusu’s Black British Culture and Society
reader draws attention to major issues in the arts and
humanities. In political economy, Trevor Carter, Gus
John, Paul Gilroy and A Sivanandan have addressed the
struggle for economic and social justice.
Publishers and heritage shapers
Black publishers and intellectuals have birthed
influential critical Black studies. Guyanese patriots
Jessica and Eric Huntley helped Dr Cheddi Jagan in the
50s and 60s struggle against colonialism, and founded
Bogle L’Ouverture in London, 1969, with a clear focus
on Black freedom and equality.
John La Rose created New Beacon Books to publish
radical, Black and Third World books. His community
innovations included supplementary day schools and
seminars. He organised parents and teachers to speak
for youth in the strife-torn inner cities. His Dream to
change the world project is housed at the iconic George
Padmore Institute, north London
Everything by this poet of Black working class unity has
cultural validity. His narratives on the class struggle and
political economy laid the groundwork for further
studies. Colleagues Sarah White and Roxy Harris,
linguist and education lecturer at Kings College London
offer groundbreaking report on Black people, in
Changing Britannia: Life Experience With Britain New
Beacon Books 1999 and Sarah White (Author),Building
Britannia: Life Experience with Britain, New Beacon
Books 2009.
To go further on the cultural trail, the author Thomas L
Blair’s web sites are an important “representation of
British Culture”, according to the British Library, the
national library of the UK, and leader in “conserving
world knowledge”. See his Cyberaction for Social
Change http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15810.html,
and Changing Black Britain
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15811.html.
Conclusion
Our stratified society brands every institution with a
potential for intolerance. Archival, research and
policymaking programmes are not exempt. This makes it
necessary to add “minorities and minority issues” and
reform national heritage collections in the 21st century.
Decolonising Knowledge accepts this challenge. The
goal is to embed a new cache of digital and print
information and ideas about peoples of African and
Afro-Caribbean heritage in Britain.
Why? Because modern Black peoples are no longer the
“dark strangers” of decades ago.
Deep in the crucible of post-modernism, communities
learned to counter the prejudices and stereotypes of a
hostile society. And, modern Black scholars and public
intellectuals launched the freedomways that led from
thought to redemptive action.
Black scholars -- mind of the
Diaspora
Creative, active intellectuality does not simply emerge
from nowhere. Momentous events shaped the postcolonial mind of the African Diaspora in the 20th
century.
A generation of African and Afro-Caribbean writers,
thinkers, artists and opinion makers came of age
between and after the two World Wars. From hastily
constructed ramparts, they challenged state, society and
the guardians of the Westernized worldview. They
proposed a new vision of Black intellectuality,
liberating the mind of the diaspora.
Decolonising Knowledge accepts that this critique and
vision, this intellectual spirit, is of fundamental
importance. It attracts top writers and community
leaders to speak and defend their own traditions and
cultures. Collecting, preserving and sharing its
unrivalled content are a vital public service.
Britain’s “quarrel with itself”
Prof Stuart Hall, Rhodes Scholar and the inventor of
British cultural sociology, challenged the moderate
“integration” and “multi-cultural” model as a “highly
problematic question”.
Jamaican-born Hall charged the media industry for their
dis-information about Black people in the riotous
1970s.
The fellow at the Contemporary Cultural Studies Centre,
Birmingham University said:
“My own view is that black people have had an
invisible presence for centuries in British history: they
have been the hidden component in the fate and fortune
of Britain as a world-imperial power”, he said in his
seminal article Black Men, White Media, in Savacou,
Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement, vol. 9/10,
1974.
Hall was appalled at the exclusion of Black immigrants
from Africa and the West Indies in end-of-empire
Britain. He wrote “In the very moment when that worldhistorical role is being diminished, blacks have come in
large numbers to work and live in what is laughingly
called the 'host' society. They have always been - and
are now visibly - central to the society's “quarrel with
itself.” You exclude them from access at considerable
peril to society as a whole.”
Hall’s vision was “real”, each thought measured and
concrete, analysed and enumerated theme by theme, case
by case, and when combined placed his cultural
sociology deep in the political sphere.
Lift the veil of silence. Take a stand
African and Caribbean scholars and intellectuals in
other colonialist capitals joined the chorus of concern.
Alioune Diop, the most prestigious post-war intellectual
in Europe, called for recognition of the essential
humanity of Black people. “Regain our rightful place in
the world” was the triumphant declaration of his 1st
Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956.
The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o puts this case in
Decolonising the Mind. It is time, he said, after centuries
of colonialism, to “decouple ourselves” from our
colonisers, especially in the realms of academia,
research and policymaking.
Significantly, Walter Rodney contended that Europe
must shift perspectives in this new postcolonialist
encounter. The ill-fated Guyanese intellectual and
activist famously challenged biased western scholarship
in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and in To the
Groundings with my Brothers.
From the liberation trenches, revolutionary scholars and
advocates denounced “cultural imperialism”. Frantz
Fanon. The Martinican psychiatrist-maquisard, who
found his own identity in involvement and death in the
Algerian cause, signalled the essentials of decolonising
knowledge. One, in The Damned he wrote
“Decolonisation never takes place unnoticed, for it
influences individuals and modifies them
fundamentally...the “thing which has been colonised
becomes man during the same process by which it frees
itself”. Two, furthermore, Fanon said the major task
ahead was “the exorcism of the vestiges of the colonised
mentality” and doing so define, reconstruct and perfect
one’s own personality.
His landmark studies and pained analysis resonate in
Black British radical literature. One expression is Sarah
White, Roxy Harris and Sharmilla Beezmohun eds., A
Meeting of the Continents: History, Memories,
Organisation and Programmes 1982-1995. Published by
The International Book Fair of Radical Black & 3rd
World Book's – Revisited. New Beacon Books, London.
(2005)
The constant struggle
However, old colonial, prejudiced views of African
intelligence die hard. Especially in the hallowed halls of
academe. In Britain, Black scholars are noticeably
scarce in the olive groves of academe.
Of about 14,000 British professors in the whole of the
UK, only approximately 75 are black, advocates said.
Hence, this limits their impact and contributions in every
discipline. In effect, this denies them recognition and
entry in the records of Britain’s archived intellectual
heritage collections.
“Alas, there are no Blacks that match or high standards,”
say the university vice-chancellors and the research
directors. Evidence-based investigations show there is
no shortage of black PhD graduates.
What nonsense. They exist. However, most of them have
gone to universities abroad in the USA, Canada. This
way the unhired Black scholars escape what they see as
the institutional racism. This still exists at the heart of
the UK's leading universities, campaigners said.
Prominent persons are known to share this view. They
include social critics Paul Gilroy and Caryl Philips and
writers Fred D’Aguiar and Merle Collins, the filmmaker
Isaac Julien and the artist Winston Branch.
Of course, gaining an entry-level lectureship is difficult
enough for a Black academic. However, being retained
and advancing to the professoriate is, as individuals
attest and as the statistics show, “damned near
impossible”.
The insignificant numbers are cause for concern. The
Afro-Caribbean Prof Lola Young of Middlesex
University has remarked that Black intellectuals like
herself “...often have a hard time getting their work taken
seriously”. Others say that the leakage to America is due
to the lack of opportunities in the UK.
Britain’s multicultural mentor, Lord Parekh, of Asian
background believes academic, political and judicial
institutions must tackle racism. See Amelia Hill in the
Guardian, Monday 22 November 2010 18.43 GMT.
Therefore, the implications for capturing the Black
intellectual heritage are dire. Academics and the
information guardians do not legitimate them. They are
“invisible” in the national intellectual heritage that the
information professionals say they seek to capture. See:
Black lecturers: Victims of racism: BBC News;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/371809.stm;
Report Reveal Pay Bias against black lecturers: The
Guardian newspaper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/oct/14/raceined
Conclusion
The evidence sends out a clear message. National
heritage enhancers must open their portals to the Black
Experience and scholars. “There remains”, said David
Dabydeen “the fundamental issue of the gap between the
academy...and the situation of those it theorises about.”
Black post-colonial intellectuals, said Dabydeen,
provide “a critical lens through which to appreciate
better the complex legacies that shape both the global
order and multi-racial societies such as Britain.”
Upgrading Black heritage in national
collections
With Decolonising Knowledge at hand, librarians and
information professionals should be able to “capture and
preserve” the internet-based works of Black
communities and excellent Black scholars.
Here are some of the most important clusters of
resources.
New issues for the Humanities
Humanities and Folklore are core areas for Black
heritage print and digital materials. Signature strengths
are in cultural history and literature.
These include foodways, popular and folk music,
literary and film criticism, religions, art and visual
culture, vernacular architecture. Choreographers,
painters, and players create, critique and new artistic
forms.
All provide a basis for archivable material.
University sources for Black heritage
enhancement
Academic departments are increasingly important
sources of information to fill the reservoirs of
knowledge about Black people in society. They include
topics and sources on the Black Experience rarely
available for public access:
New political communication, electoral and
campaigning politics, engagement and citizenship
Social and civic uses of the internet
Social and digital mediated identity and
relationships
Cross-cultural comparisons; quantitative methods
in media and communications research.
Social contexts and consequences of new media;
media audiences (uses, reception, effects); children
and young people's use of the internet; media
literacy.
Information and communication technologies and
social exclusion.
Decolonising Knowledge surveyed the strengths of
departmental professors and students that are leading
research in a range of relevant disciplines.
Diaspora, ethnicity and the Social media is the strength
of the London School of Economics. The Department of
Media and Communications aims “to bring together
teaching and research from across the social
sciences. http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/researchPr
Action for social change is the focus of the Centre for
Social Justice and Community Action at Durham
University. It is a rallying point for a range of
departments and disciplines and community partners. Its
aims include justice in local and international settings,
with a specific focus on participatory action research”
Pasted
from https://www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/
Training researchers for networking knowledge is
central to the University of Durham, Information
School’s new Doctoral Development Programme
(DDP). It encourages projects and skills “that reflect
broad scholarship and wider engagement within the full
community of scholars (e.g. networking, dissemination
of knowledge, conferences, demonstrating impact and
public value of research)”. Pasted from
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/pgr/ddp
Conclusion
Decolonising Knowledge’s is a useful entry to materials
for enhancing Black heritage enhancement. It offers
substantial opportunities for professional and academic
collaboration. It uncovers hidden resources; it sparks
creative research; and it empowers agents of change.
Thus, identifying a new band of socially responsible
librarians, information professionals and knowledge
managers.
Time for a Decolonising Knowledge
Agenda
Revolutions in technology and communications have
opened new avenues of digital interaction for Black
Britain’s communities and intellectuals. Overlooked by
many, they are nevertheless a part of Britain’s digital
heritage.
The challenge is to prevent their loss, and to embed
them in the national heritage collections.
It is not enough to continue with the same old ways that
exclude the Black Experience. We need to create
effective strategies for knowledge gathering and digital
management.
Decolonising Knowledge concludes this will require
collaboration and sustained effort from all parties –
librarians and archivists, researchers and information
providers and national and local governments.
Failure may drop Britain behind leading archives in
America and Europe in the Black heritage stakes.
Create effective knowledge gathering
Despite calls for capturing national heritage, there is a
significant gap in good digital materials on Black
Britain and its significance. Chronic neglect and
underfunding leave “marginal” interests at serious risk
of exclusion. Now is the time to identify the problem as
an endemic issue that requires a new plan for
information provision and use institutions.
This means proving the centrality the Black Experience
to capturing the national intellectual heritage. A range of
voices are on the digital frontiers -- from cyberscholars
to protesters, community leaders and citizen’s
journalists to high-level writers and artists – all using
social networks to get vital views out and bring about
change.
Recognise Black interactive digital sources
In this digital age, cyberspace conceals a complex of
electronic communication of Black communities and
intellectuals. Librarians may be self-proclaimed masters
of the information age but they will need to learn how to
harvest the gigabytes of Digital Black Britain that
include:
Academic high fliers posting their lecture notes,
manuscripts, commentaries and book reviews online.
Citizen’s journalists reporting misuse of policing
powers on the spot with their hand held smart phones.
Housing tenants emailing their complaints to city
officials and parliamentarians.
Eleven-year-olds researching for their homework,
downloading their favourite tunes and chatting on their
smart phones and tablets.
Cultural cyberorganisers reminding fellow expatriates
that “the community is strength” for examply the Igbo
Umanna wu ike and the Guyanese Online Blog and
Newsletter.
These daily digital interactions await the enquiries of
knowledge seekers and providers.
Look in your own backyard
Today’s diverse communities want librarians and
information professionals to be equipped to search for
their e-trails across disciplines and with an urban
national as well as international perspective.
So how to bridge the divide between invisible now and
the inclusive future?
Place it in context. Learn, interact, and discover the
urban Black Experience.
The best researchers are learning to archive the
documents of inter-faith and inter-racial groups,
immigrant associations and anti-racist campaigners.
This leads to understanding the Black Experience at the
community level or third sector of civil society.
The best researchers are pursuing topics across
disciplines, often collaborating with university faculty
and graduate students.
However, they need background studies to appreciate
‘black-identity’ in for example, kith and kin
associations, faith-based institutions, professional
associations such as sports, the police force and
voluntary groups, as well as asylum seeker and refugee
support organisations.
This will show how Black communities and
intellectuals play “a vital role in tackling inequality in
its many forms”. Especially, in the community, family,
home life, education, the job market, community and in
business, public affairs and government. Moreover, in
an increasingly tough economic environment, there is a
growing political focus on local solutions to
neighbourhood problems.
Make public libraries the new frontline
Today’s public libraries are the major local institutions
offering communities free computer access. Hence, there
is a strong argument that libraries should be frontline
services helping people to cross the digital divide. They
need to prove this can be done; and here are some
central issues. What are the implications; and what
changed perspectives, policies and technologies are
needed?
Do experts realize that Internet web sites have
become surrogates for libraries? What is or should
be public library policy for community information
in districts of significant African and AfroCaribbean households?
How are local libraries using the Internet to serve
Black populations in crisis and change?
Are librarians they planning for high-speed internet
access?
What is the city policy to help the information poor
cross the digital divide?
Are Black librarians and graduate students being
trained for digital leadership roles?
Can youth’s digital culture, expressed for example
in hip-hop and afro-beat, become the new tools for
encouraging community cohesion and social
consciousness?
Are librarians ready to include Black scholarly
works in their Collections Development in the 21st
century?
But how to test Decolonising Knowledge in the
archives, bookshelves and online?
People can rate the quality of collections on Black
communities and scholars.
Are their information gateways up-to-date? That is, are
the holdings on Black communities and scholars urban,
modern and achievement oriented or euro-centric,
colonial and prone to dispense prejudice?
Develop a performance test to measure actual content
topics and catalogue titles, and evaluate how librarians
are adapting to local needs.
Use Digital Source Guides to the Black
community and intellectual presence
Internet resources
Caribbean and African Researchers' Network
(CARN) - UK-based scholarly network for
researchers focused on Caribbean and African
Studies.
CASBAH - website for the CASBAH RSLP
Project, identifying and mapping national research
resources for Caribbean studies and the history of
Black and Asian people in Britain.
Centre for Caribbean Studies, Department of
English & Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths,
University of London.
Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) University of London Latin American and
Caribbean Studies research portal, including
handbook.
Commission of Racial Equality (CRE)
Institute of Race Relations (IRR)
For statistical research into the Black population in
Britain see:
National Census
Population Census and Survey
Population Trends
Ethnicity in the Census
Office of National Statistics publications
See also the OECD Declaration on Principles and
Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public
Funding, January 2004
Restore trust in professionals
While professionals have codes that stress the
importance of objectivity, they seem to have lost their
public duty. By contrast, the innovative Victorians had a
sense of mission, belief and imaginative sympathy
rooted in the ethics of social service. Charles Dickens
and William Thackeray joined Edward Edwards, the
“father of the public library” in opening England’s first
public library in Manchester, (the same backdrop for
Friedrich Engels seminal book, The Condition of the
Working Class in England).
To their credit, the Victorians were the first to throw a
lifeline to the poor but education hungry working
classes. Many of today’s librarians and information
professionals have not moved far from the comforts of
home and office computers, nor academics from their
cloistered precincts.
They need to venture to the urban cauldron. Seize the
opportunities to explore social issues that they can
respond to, professionally. Feel confident to assist
effective, positive, meaningful change in the
neighbourhoods that need their services most.
Info-point. Management and Professionalism
Institutional arrangements for the management of research data should be
based on the relevant professional standards and values embodied in the
codes of conduct of the scientific communities involved.
Source: OECD PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR ACCESS TO
RESEARCH DATA FROM PUBLIC FUNDING – (c) OECD 2007
Advance diversity awareness
You cannot “see” the Black Heritage of communities
and scholars if you are unaware of social and
demographic changes.
Diversity is the character of Britain’s society and
globalising urban economies. The percentages of people
of non-white backgrounds are increasing. For example,
Leicester ranks as the first British city with a non-white
majority; and London’s non-white population is
expected to hit 30 percent in the next census, with
Africans and Caribbeans being a significant group.
Furthermore, their new media use and communications
will transform heritage enhancement. Scholars will
source and validate their findings in academic Elibraries. They will be more likely to produce and
research the Black Experience through E-content on Ereaders, web sites, social network sites, cell phones,
blogs, smart phones and shared photos and videos. They
will be more able to access long-form E-content such as
books, monographs, government reports and whether
digitised or E-born.
Make Britain the leader in “Apps” for Black
community and intellectual enhancement
The advent of applications or “apps” to perform
specific informational tasks have created a new cache of
resource materials. However, the UK-USA contrast in
Black history and study apps is instructive. In America,
thousands of informational apps are based on African
American personalities and events. Archival, academic,
voluntary groups produce them. So do Black community
advocates and government equality agencies.
Scores of commercial groups such as Ebsco supply the
library industry with millions of pages of AfricanAmericana digital and print materials. Furthermore, they
are ready made for mobile phones, E-readers and the
like.
There are none in the UK as multi-platformed and
singularly devoted to the Black British Experience. This
needs to change.
Info-point: Apps empower Black History US
These four American applications focus on the struggles and successes,
and equally important, figures from Black History. See technical
specifications and and source details, and disclaimer below. Producers set
the national and historical context.
February is Black History Month in the US. It’s a time to reflect on the
part of a people who have journeyed from slavery to the Oval Office and
look at the heroes, sung and unsung, who made the transformative journey
possible. It is also a time to look forward, for people of all races and
ideologies, and to continue the quest for true racial equality in America.
What the designers and educators say.
Apps are great educational tools. They focus on the epic struggles to
show by word and deed that all men – and women – are indeed created
equal. Here are four examples. Then and Now Series: Black History
Looks at the lives of 100 historically important Black people in a simple
easy-to-use app. It focuses on the people behind the struggles and
successes. You can search for names you would expect to find or browse
to discover lesser known, but equally important, figures from Black
History. The app also allows users to print or share their discoveries with
anyone who also wants to learn more.
Black History in An Hour
This app allows you to get the most important facts on the most salient
topics, fast. It focuses mostly on key events in the history of African
Americans particularly during slavery. But goes beyond the US into
Africa. It’s not meant to be a comprehensive eBook, just a starting point
for discussion or further study.
Black History Facts
This app broadens the focus on the struggle for racial equality in the US to
explore Black History from around the world. More than 500 snippets of
information foster deeper inquiry and provoke discussion.
The Root for iPad
Brought to iPad by The Washington Post and The Root, a dedicated
Black news web site edited by academics and the prestigious W EB Du
Bois Institute at Harvard University. The Root for iPad looks not at black
history as recorded in the annals, but black history in the making. It
combines web news with curated commentary from highly respected
African American writers. The app tackles the current implications of
race in American society and myriad related issues. It even has podcasts
on hot topics. Furthermore, this app is optimized for iOS 5. It also
incorporates a host of sharing features to spread the best stories around
the web via social media to open debate… and minds, the editors say.
Phone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Technical details
Read more: http://www.148apps.com/news/favorite-apps-black-historymonth/#ixzz2IeixV8QB
Categories: Education, Entertainment, Facts, News and Information
Guides. Tagged with: American history, Black History Month
From Free to $3.00
Sourced from: http://www.148apps.com/news/favorite-apps-black-historymonth/#ixzz26IgBC6Yd
The info-points are for information only, and the author is not responsible
for the views expressed.
Build sustainable collections of the Black
Experience
Academic departments are increasingly important
sources of information to fill the reservoirs of
knowledge about Black people in society. They include
topics and sources on the Black Experience rarely
available for public access:
New political communication, electoral and
campaigning politics, engagement and citizenship
Social and civic uses of the internet
Social and digital mediated identity and
relationships
Cross-cultural comparisons; quantitative methods
in media and communications research.
Social contexts and consequences of new media;
media audiences (uses, reception, effects); children
and young people's use of the internet; media
literacy. Information and communication
technologies and social exclusion.
Decolonising Knowledge surveyed the strengths of
departmental professors and students that are leading
research in a range of relevant disciplines.
Diaspora, ethnicity and the Social media is the strength
of the London School of Economics. The Department of
Media and Communications aims “to bring together
teaching and research from across the social sciences.
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/researchProgrammes
Action for social change is the focus of the Centre for
Social Justice and Community Action at Durham
University. It is a rallying point for a range of
departments and disciplines and community partners. Its
aims include justice in local and international settings,
with a specific focus on participatory action research”
Pasted from
https://www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/
Training researchers for networking knowledge is
central to the University of Durham, Information
School’s new Doctoral Development Programme
(DDP). It encourages projects and skills “that reflect
broad scholarship and wider engagement within the full
community of scholars (e.g. networking, dissemination
of knowledge, conferences, demonstrating impact and
public value of research)”. Pasted from
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/pgr/ddp
Restructure digital access and
management systems
The unprecedented scale and scope of global digital
connectivity created new opportunities for more
effective and efficient archival and curatorial procedure.
Moreover, it prompts new, better, faster and previously
impossible research.
Yet the infrastructure to provide such access to the
Black Experience in communities and scholarship is
currently underdeveloped.
Decolonising Knowledge urges action now and the
results made available in public access repositories and
digital heritage collections.
Decolonising Knowledge believes that there should be a
commitment to a 21st century digital mamagement
infrastructure. Britain cannot afford to settle for
instruments unsuitrable and insensitive to recording the
Black Experience.
Launch a Digital Black Britain Seminar
It’s time to launch a Digital Black Britain Seminar, with
several anticipated outcomes. Key stakeholders and
their interests need to be identified. Good practices
shared. Problems and opportunities highlighted. And
appropriate action strategies formulated for
implementation.
Programme themes include:
Theme 1: Overview: Embedding, Implementation,
Data Management and Sharing of Black community
and Intellectual materials in National Initiatives:
discussion by leading centres including the UK
Data Archive, the International Data Forum, and the
International Social Science Council, UNESCO
Theme 2: Digital Black Britain in Perspectives,
Expectations and Challenges
Theme 3. Creating Digital Preservation Policies
with Community Standards, the studies of the
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR) Theme 4: New Roles and
Opportunities for Black community and intellectual
production: Self-produced or Digitally Generated
data and the Integration of the two Theme 5:
Guidelines for Data Producers/researchers, Data
Consumers and Digital Archives Theme 6:
Enabling Access to Digital Black Britain Data-sets,
the role for Library and Information Professionals
Theme 7: The Legal Framework, Standards and
protocols of Black British African and AfroCaribbean Digital Content Theme 8: Digital
Management and Practices in relevant disciplines
such as Social Sciences, Demography, Humanities,
Arts, Politics, Economics, Community
Participation, Third Sector Research
Theme 9. Funding and institutional arrangements
for access, dissemination and sharing of Black
community and intellectual data, with contributions
from academic, research councils, information
technology companies, business and government
and international resource agencies, including
OECD representative for principles and guidelines
for access to research data from public funding
(Note: The themes have relevance for and include
both saving (or archiving) and exhibiting (or
curating) materials. With acknowledgement to the
1st African Digital Management and Curation
Conference and Workshop, 12 and 13 February
2008, at the CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria,
South Africa. Pasted from
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/nadicc/programme.html
Make long-term investments in resources
and funding strategies
Decolonising Knowledge believes that funding is a key
to implementing successful plans. It is needed not only
to start flagship but to prime sustainable programmes.
But librarians, information professiomals and professors
will need to be “better sellers of their products in the
money market”.
Project and programme planning activities must face a
key isuse: developing the ability to get maximum value
from investments in access, disseminatiomn and sharing.
In the academic sphere, the Arts and Humanities
Research Council funds world-class research in the arts
and humanities. It provides approximately £98m per
annum for some 700 research awards, and 2,000
postgraduate scholarships. Favoured new programmes
promote research careers & training, strengthen research
impact and extend engagement. Pasted from
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/What-We-Do/Pages/What-wedo.aspx
The Economic and Social Research Council’s Future
Research Leaders scheme funds future knowledge
innovators. It supports outstanding early career
researchers to carry out excellent research and
knowledge exchange skills. Applications for 2012-13
offered a maximum of three years with an overall limit
of £312,500 (at 100 per cent full Economic Cost), and
aimed to fund around 70 awards. Pasted from
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/fundingopportunities/15938/future-research-leaders.aspx
Internet giants such as Amazon and Google are the first
funders that come to mind. There are also the powerful
barons of the Internet technology and infrastructure
companies. Information technology companies and
private benefactors are possible resource lifelines.
Additional sources include state and European Union
agencies. But what is needed above all is public
funding, based on a statement of principles and
guidelines.
Info-point Funding and technical assistance
In certain areas ..., a lack of planning for and execution of the
proper documentation and archiving of data sets is one of the key
impediments
to realising maximum value from the investment in research data.
Project and program planning activities, at all levels, should expressly
acknowledge data issues at the earliest stages to take into consideration
funding and technical assistance for the essential organisation and curation
of those data sets. Attention should be paid to incentives and the
development
of professional expertise in all areas of research data management.
Source: OECD PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR ACCESS TO
RESEARCH DATA FROM PUBLIC FUNDING – (c) OECD 2007
Towards an Archival/Curatorial Digital
Fellowship Programme
So these are challenging times. That is why
Decolonising Knowledge is concerned to create the next
generation of leaders and skill needed to advance the
digital works of Black Britain’s community and
intellectual heritage.
We can start with a fellowship programme to point the
way.
Purpose. The Fellow’s goal is to use the internet,
networks and digital media to drive forward the
programme’s aims, namely decolonising knowledge for
Black heritage enhancement.
Identifying content producers and users is one
component. Another is devising appropriate “surveying”
technologies. These may include crowd-sourcing across
major devices, operating systems, web browsers and
different language versions.
Key duties and responsibilities. Defined here, this
means creating and managing a directory of folders and
files that users can access. The Fellow would therefore
open and maintain an online presence that is up-to-date
and supports programme policies and democratic ethos.
Importantly, the Fellow would establish social media
for data collection from Black voluntary and third sector
communities, in a user-friendly environment. Special
attention will be given to grassroots organisations
covering a range of membership and views.
Attracting the brightest candidates. A paid Internship for
PhD studies should attract the best and most committed
persons to start on a new career. This will ensure the
widest range of candidates and abilities. Of course,
professors and departmental staff are the best recruiters.
They can propose candidates in their courses and
research training workshops. However, they need to be
“better sellers of their products in the money market”.
Even a modest plan needs reliable resources to start up
and sustain. It needs the bedrock of proper funding.
Business and commercial enterprises have an interest,
too. Internet giants such as Amazon and Google are the
first potential funders that come to mind. There are also
the powerful barons of the Internet technology and
infrastructure companies. Additional sources include
state and European Union agencies, information
technology companies and private benefactors.
In the academic sphere, the Arts and Humanities
Research Council funds world-class research in the arts
and humanities. It provides approximately £98m per
annum for some 700 research awards, and 2,000
postgraduate scholarships. Favoured new programmes
promote research careers & training, strengthen research
impact and extend engagement. Pasted from
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/What-We-Do/Pages/What-wedo.aspx
The Economic and Social Research Council’s Future
Research Leaders scheme funds future knowledge
innovators. It supports outstanding early career
researchers to carry out excellent research and
knowledge exchange skills. Applications for 2012-13
offered a maximum of three years with an overall limit
of £312,500 (at 100 per cent full Economic Cost), and
aimed to fund around 70 awards. Pasted from
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/fundingopportunities/15938/future-research-leaders.aspx
Moreover, the best proposals for the fellowship must
involve firm academic alliances with the Black
Voluntary Sector. Partnerships with international
campaign managers are also useful. These include
Euclid, the European network for third sector leaders,
and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Crowd-funding has also played an important role. It fills
some of the gaps in academic and archival budgets
created by the drastic reductions in UK public spending.
Crowd-funding has become a platform to secure muchneeded top-up resources for archiving community
records and histories.
Share and learn with others
Black heritage enhancement is a flagship innovation that
can attract streams of researchers. Indeed, many may be
from countries and organisations without minority
knowledge portals. In particular, European cultural
enhancers could learn to recognise their millions of
Black African and Afro-Caribbean citizen/residents.
The UK has much to learn as well. Other countries may
have lessons to share. For example, the “Obama effect”
revitalised Africa Diaspora collections in the US. These
include The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for
Full Citizenship at the Library of Congress, the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New
York Public Library and the Moorland-Spingarn
Research Center at Howard University in Washington
D.C., one of the world’s largest repositories of its kind.
Conclusion
Yes, “We’re in danger of losing our memories”, as
national heritage enhancers have lamented. However,
the “our” must include Britain’s Black African and
Afro-Caribbean communities and intellectuals.
Moreover, boundary-crossing innovators are needed in
library sciences, information professions and
government.
To do what?
To Detoxify euro-centric archives and research
perspectives and promote diversity in future
heritage collection.
To Demolish the false boundaries between elite
intellectualism and action by well-versed, actionoriented Black Public Intellectuals
To Bridge the gap between who and what is
included in the “national heritage”
To Reclaim and adapt the Victorian’s mission of
social responsibility.
Decolonising Knowledge and the Thomas L Blair
Collection’s appendices address what may be one of the
most closely fought civil rights issues of our time. It
challenges national heritage guardians to include, and
make safe from erasure, the Black Experience, its urban
transformations and its Public Intellectuals.
That’s the right kind of spirit for a
new generation!
Glossary
African Diaspora. Herein defined, the diaspora is an
outpost of globally dispersed national communities
residing outside the physical boundaries of their homenation. Emigrant Jews, Irish and Armenians also exhibit
this “scattering of the seeds” a term derived from
Ancient Greek. Black Britain. Britain’s mainly Englishspeaking African and African Caribbean populations of
African diaspora heritage.
Black Experience. The cumulative and interrelated
impact on urbanites of African and Caribbean heritage
living in the postmodern city.
Census statistics and terminology. Decolonising
Knowledge’s focus is on urban Black Britain. The
period is post-World War II to the first decades of the
21st century. Many experts believe UK censuses are a
minefield of disputed and inaccurate terminology. They
target the inconsistency of census data and racial identity
However, the best official census reports are used here.
The census term Black British (or Afro-British here),
refers to the almost 2million descendants of African
heritage in Britain. The term has several sub-categories.
One, termed Afro-Caribbeans refers specifically to the
people of Afro-Caribbean or West Indian heritage
(600,000-estimated population). Further sub-categories
include Black African (800,000), “others” (120,000),
and a significant, growing number of mixed-race
children with whites (400,000), according to the Office
of National Statistics, Neighbourhood statistics 2009.
The estimated total UK population was 61,792,000 in
mid-2009. Whites are the majority by more than 92 per
cent; minorities of around six per cent include Indian,
Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Chinese people.
Decolonising Knowledge. Aims to embed and promote
the ideas, skills and policies that implant the Black
Experience into British national heritage collections.
See Embedding.
Digital media. Refers to any type of electronic media,
accessed in many ways, including hand held devices
like mobile phones, laptops, desktops, mp3 players, and
more. Digital content on the internet includes text,
pictures as well as audio-visuals. Digital storage
capacity on the internet allows content producers and
users to share, transfer, and store content as well.
Embedding. Herein referred to as the planned
implementation of active policies and techniques to
capture the heritage of modern Black communities and
intellectuals, in digital and print, for the Collections and
Development of the British national heritage. Compare
with
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/resource/40
active-learning-approaches-in-numeracy
Ethical roots. The Victorian inspired core ethics or
commitment to social service that public librarians and
information professionals should return to, or create.
Race, Diaspora and Digital Studies. An emerging field
of study of Black people in Britain. Several elements
are considered. One, they are emigrant peoples of the
Diaspora. Two, they are classified separately in the host
society by the racial formations that organise human
interactions by means of a structure of inequality. Three,
the proper study of Black peoples today must include
their use of local and long-distance digital networks that
create and maintain bonds of “peoplehood”.
Third Sector Organisations. This term refers to the
sphere of social activity undertaken by organisations that
are not for profit and non-governmental. They comprise
the civil or “third sector” in reference to the public
sector and the private sector. Herein used, the term
highlights the roles and relationships of Black
organisations. To clarify, see EUCLID
http://www.euclidnetwork.eu/
The Thomas L Blair Collection, with
Appendices
Appendix I. Chronicleworld.org Digital Archives
Appendix II. Selected Print titles, by Region and topics,
for illustrative purposes
Appendix III. Bibliography of selected works relevant
to the African Diaspora
Appendix IV. Selected Bibliography For Decolonising
Knowledge about People of African Heritage, in The
Blair Collection
Appendix V. The Thomas L Blair Collection in the
British Library – Selected examples at July 2012
Appendix I. Chronicleworld.org
Digital
Archives
The Blair Collection digital component includes an
extensive range of historical, social, critical and
theoretical articles. Essays raise issues for discussion,
study, teaching and research. For full volumes, see
articles at http://www.chronicleworld.org/Archives
archive 07/ archive 06 / archive 05 / archive 04 /
archive 03 / archive 02 / archive 01
Here, for example, is the Archive 01 list of articles up
to the year 2000
9.101 Black media collective: Powering into the
media future Joy Francis and fledging journalists in
the Media Trust voluntary group challenge Britain's
media leaders – in film, television, radio,
newspapers and the Internet to introduce diversity
in employment, stories and images reflecting the
multicultural nature of society.
9.102 It's not easy: Getting “a good black story”
into the media. By Henry Bonsu Radio presenter
and journalist, Henry Bonsu, says some progress
has been made to combat media racism but there is
still evidence of “Collective failure”...appalling
recruitment practices, unwitting prejudice...and
stereotyping of “asylum seekers”. 9.103 Media
justice Call to action. By the Media Trust and the
Creative Collective Black journalists say it makes
good practice and business sense to offer racially
integrated news coverage. Reporters can detect the
exciting stories, significant trends and miscarriages
of justice that will lead to well informed writing
about modern-day Britain. 9.104 Legalise our
name: Black “pirate radio” helps free up the
airwaves. By Donald McTernan The Radio
Communications Agency spends over £1 million
per year on chasing pirates. Surely, this money
could be put to better use, i.e. showing new stations
how to broadcast and organise themselves, or
training young people in the various technical and
engineering aspects of broadcasting? This would
genuinely broaden listener choice, extend
democracy, and assist in bringing communities
together whilst simultaneously celebrating cultural
diversity. 9.1051 Tapping media publicity Handy
tricks for beginners If you want to successfully get
your message or event across to the media, this
article tells you what you need to do, and how to
write press releases and conduct interviews
8.101 Revealed: How UK media fuelled race
prejudice. Decades-old essay by Britain's bestknown sociologist gives vital clues 8.102 Media
Trust and Black journalists urge positive media
response to Lawrence inquiry report. Bold new
action plans needed to meet the challenges of
diversity and democracy.
7.101 Trevor Phillips, black independent
broadcaster, journalist and candidate for London's
mayor answers a key question for Blacks in the TV
millennium. Are there colour bars in a digital
universe? 7.102 Our Correspondent reports on
Flawed Press Coverage of Race-hate attack in East
Germany 7.103 Britain's favourite newscaster
honoured Sir Trevor McDonald “Stunned” at
Queen's Birthday Honours 7.104 Black Filmmaker
seeks “reel-changes” in Cinema and TV 6.101 We
show how issues of race go to the heart of British
journalism in “Reforming the media” 6.102 We
document how media systems are part of the
problem of social exclusion in “Notes from a
reporter's casebook” 6.103 Media ills and
solutions are outlined in “Write-on, Dr. Ainley”
6.104 How militant journalists fought to enrich
press reporting and employment for blacks is
revealed in “From little acorns” by Mike Jempson
6.105 Choices for change in media practices are
discussed in “Blacks in U.S. News and
Newsrooms” 6.106 Teen-age Black journalists
target UK racism and power abuse in “So young, so
street-wise” Features - archive 10.101 “Western
classical music flourished in hands of forgotten
black musicians” 10.102 On Naomi: “Ain't
Nobody's Business if she does” Our correspondent
discusses pros and cons of super-star model's
stormy career
9.201 McQueen's £20,000 Turner Prize Win Makes
it 2-1n-a-row for Black British Artists 9.202 FTSE
100 top companies show poor record in employing
Black Managers 9.203 “Palatable Negresse”.
Naomi - Playboy's Chocolate Jungle-bunny. By
Janet Momo Critique of glamour model publishing
and what Frantz Fanon called the demand for the
'Negresse' ... ' but only if... (she) is made palatable
in a certain way'.
9.204 Challenge to London's New Mayor: Commit
to a “bias toward betterment” 9.205 Strategy for a
Black Agenda Public leaders and academics must
collaborate in saving black communities 9.206
Focus forward to Y2K25 for Black Britain and
Africa. Some startling millennial hopes and
predictions 9.207 Caribbean Americans face battle
to improve status. By Basil Wilson and Carib
News, NY 9.208 Rap on Race in America By C.
Gerald Fraser He expresses his deep concern for
one of the most talked about, but least honestly
discussed topics of modern society.
9.209 “Racial Democracy” eludes Brazilians By a
Correspondent Explains why with Brazil
approaching in April 2000 the anniversary of the
Portuguese colonization the theme was “500 Years
of Black Resistance.”
Venceremos Race and Identity in Cuba By
AfroCubaWeb 8.201 Who'd be a public servant?
Government services must adapt to attract Black
graduates 8.202 Mentoring: Movement to salvage
Black youth sweeps inner-city 8.203 The state of
Black Britain in key professions and public
services Some selected statistics, with a brief
over-view of key sectors in the professions and
public services.
7.201 Lessons for Race equality gains threatened
by rising tide of institutional racism 7.202
Lawrence family advisor joins small band of black
peers in the House of Lords 7.203 Immigrants'
advocate wins seat in European Parliament 3.201
Do Blacks Need a New London Mayor? 3.202
“Blind-to-Blacks” Millennium 2.201 What Future
for Black Londoners? - English 2.202 What Future
for Black Londoners? - French 1.201 Blacks and
Europe's new melting pot cities - English 1.202
Blacks and Europe's new melting pot cities French
FIRST CHRONICLE WRITERS
Tales of Being Black in Bristol, England. Malcolm
Massiah
Armani Suits and Timberland Boots: A story of
A.W.O.L. Homeboys in the 9 to 5 battle. Words by
Asante
“Black race and reparations for Slavery - “That's
Insane!”“: A Conversation in Montreal by Tokunbo
Ojo
Carolina Writers/Rites/and Rights - We seek the
truth of our own existence by Victor Blue
New South African Literature
4.401 Cross the digital divide
4.402 Cyber - Patrols threaten internet liberties
4.403 What is wrong with Internet Rating Systems
and Filtering Software - by Yaman Akdeniz
APPENDIX II. Selected Print titles,
by Region and topics, for illustrative
purposes
Not every researcher accepts, nor must they accept in
good conscience, the mantle of “objectivity” that blinds
us to injustice that exploits one group to the advantage of
another. Many academics and scholarly advocates have
given us reasoned views and analyses about the
problems and prospects of “Black folks then and now”
in the citadels of postmodernism.
Recommended sources
Look for well-written books by Black authors Black
social scientists have proven the influential role culture
played in their various struggles in modern society.
Besides the writers already mentioned see
Useful too are the works of Professor Stuart Hall who
expanded the scope of cultural studies. In addition,
everything by the poet of Black working class unity John
L Rose has cultural validity and his colleagues
To go further on the cultural trail, the author Thomas L
Blair’s web sites are an important “representation of
British Culture”, according to the British Library, leader
in “conserving world knowledge”. See his Cyberaction
for Social Change
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15810.html, and
Changing Black Britain
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15811.html
This article is a companion to his contribution to
Thomas L Blair, “Urbanism and Poetics” in Présence
Africaine 175-176-177, 50th Anniversary of the 1er
International Congress of Black Writers and Artists, 1922 September 2006,Volume II, p.246-252.
We know of the works of esteemed professors and
public intellectuals, however here are some other
examples of critical thinking, by region and topics.
Black Britain/London/Cities
Paul Gilroy (1982 edition), There Ain't No Black in the
Union Jack. Routledge, London
R. Victoria Arana, ed. (2007), Black British Aesthetics
Today. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle.
Dave Haslam (1999), Manchester. England: The Story
of the Pop Cult City. Fourth Estate, London
Thomas L Blair (1973), The Poverty of Planning: Crisis
in the Urban Environment. Macdonald, London
Institute of Race Relations (1986), The Fight against
Racism. Book Four – A Pictorial History of Asians and
Afro-Caribbeans in Britain. London
Mike Phillips & Trevor Phillips (1998), Windrush: The
Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain. Harper
Collins, London
Paul Hartman and Charles Husband (1974), Racism and
The Mass Media:
A study of the role of the Mass Media in the formation
of White beliefs and attitudes in Britain. Davis Poynter
Limited, London
Marika Sherwood (1999), Claudia Jones: A Life in
Exile. Lawrence and Wishart, London
Susan Okokon in Black Londoners 1880-1990,
Dr Hakim Adi West Africans in Britain 1900-1960.
Harry Goulbourne Race Relations in Britain since 1945.
Roxy Harris and Sarah White, Changing Britannia: Life
Experience With Britain. New Beacon Press, London
Caribbean Anglophone and Afro-Latin
America
C L R James (1996 edition), Beyond A Boundary.
Stanley Paul/Hutchinson, London
Chris Searle (circa 1983), Grenada: The Struggle
against Destabilization. Writers and Readers Publishing
Cooperative Society, London
Walter Rodney (1975 edition), The Groundings with my
Brothers. Bogle-L'Ouverture, London
Orlando Patterson (1985), The Children of Sisyphus.
Longman, London
William Claypole and John Robottom (1994),
Caribbean Story Book One: Foundations, and Book
Two: The Inheritors. New Edition, Longman, Harlow,
England
Eric Williams (1944), Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel
Hill, University of North Carolina Press
Alex Bellos (2002), Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life.
Bloomsbury, London
Minority Rights Group (1995), No Longer Invisible:
Afro-Latin Americans Today. MRG, London
Afro-America
Drake, St Clair and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis,
University of Chicago edition 1993
Du Bois, W E B, The Philadelphia Negro, Shocken
Books, New York 1969 James Baldwin (1968) Tell Me
How Long the Train's Been Gone. Michael Joseph,
London Oliver C Cox, Foundations of Capitalism
Kenneth Clark, Dark Ghetto
Black Scholar, selected volumes
Harlem Renaissance – Art of Clack America by The
Studio Museum in Harlem
Thomas L Blair (1977), Retreat to the Ghetto: The End
of a Dream? Wildwood House, London
Abdul Alkalimat (2004), The African American
Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the
Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History. Pluto
Press, London
Sterling A Brown et al eds. (1970), The Negro Caravan:
Writings by American Negroes. Arno/New York Times,
New York
Constance R. Sutton and Elsa M. Chaney, eds. (1994) C
aribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural
Dimensions. Centre for Migration Studies of New York,
Inc.
Leroi Jones (1968), Home: Social Essays. MacGibbon
& Kee, London
Africa and the Black World
African Writers Series, Heinemann, London
W E B Du Bois (1963), The A B C of Color. Seven
Seas Books, Berlin
Sarah White, Roxy Harris and Sharmilla Beezmohun
eds. (2005), A Meeting of the Continents: History,
Memories, Organisation and Programmes 1982-1995.
The International Book Fair of Radical Black & 3 rd
World Book's – Revisited. New Beacon Books,
London.
Okwui Enwezor (2001) The Short Century:
Independence movements in Africa 1945-1994. Prestel,
Munich, London, New York
International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa
(nd), Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society, Exhibition
of Photographs.
Appendix III. Bibliography of
selected works relevant to the African
Diaspora
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (1989),
The Empire Writes Back:
Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures.
London: Routledge
Bennett, Louise (1971), “Colonisation in Reverse”, in
Andrew Salkey, ed. Breaklight:
The Poetry of the Caribbean New York: Doubleday
Brooks, Dennis (1975), Race and Labour in London
Transport. Oxford: Oxford University Press
CRE (1996), Roots of the Future: Ethnic Diversity in the
Making of Britain. London: Commission for Racial
Equality.
Cross, Malcolm and Michael Keith, eds. (1993),
Racism, The City and the State. London: Routledge
Davidson, R.B (1962)., West Indian Migrants. Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Farson, Daniel (1987), Soho in the Fifties. London:
Michael Joseph Foner, Nancy (1985), “Race and Color:
Jamaican Migrants in London and New York City”,
International Migration Review, 19 (4):707-727
Gilroy, Paul (1993), The Black Atlantic. London:Verso,
see Chapter 1. The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of
Modernity” p. 5-6
Glass, Ruth (1960), Newcomers. London: Centre for
Urban Studies. Allen & Unwin, London Hall, Stuart et al
(1978), Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State, and
Law and Order. London: Macmillan, see especially Ch.
10 “The Politics of Mugging, section”Culture,
Consciousness and Resistance”)
Jones, Evan (1982), The Lament of the Banana Man”, in
Christopher Logue, London in Verse. London: Secker &
Warburg
Lamur, H.E. and J.D. Speckman,eds. (1978), Adaptation
of Migrants from the Caribbean in the European and
American Metropoles. University of Amsterdam and
University of Leiden.
LaRose, John and Andrew Salkey, eds. (1974), Writing
Away From Home, Savacou. Kingston and London,
9/10, 1974
Lieber, M. (1976), ““Liming” and Other Concerns: The
Style of Street Embedments in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad”,
Urban Anthropology, 5 (4), Winter.
Merriman, Nick, ed. (1993), The Peopling of London:
Fifteen Thousand Years of Settlement from Overseas.
London: Museum of London. Milner Holland, Sir
(1965), Report of the Committee On Housing in Greater
London, March London: HMSO
Oxfam (1990), The Caribbean: Making Our Own
Choices. An Oxfam Report. Oxford: Patterson, Sheila
(1965), Dark Strangers: A Study of West Indians in
London. London: Penguin
Race Today Collective, The (1987), The Arrivants: A
Pictorial Essay on Blacks In Britain. London: Race
Today Publications
Rex, John and Robert Moore (1967), Race, Community,
and Conflict: A Study of Sparkbrook, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Rex, John (1971), “The Concept of Housing Class and
the Sociology of Race Relations”, Race, A Journal of
Race and Group Relations, Vol. XXII, January 1971,
No.3
Selvon, Samuel (1956), The Lonely Londoners.
Longman 1956, 14th impression 1995, see also the
Introduction by Kenneth Ramchand.
Sivanandan, A. (1976), “Race, Class and the State: The
Black experience in Britain”, Race and Class, vol.17,
pp. 347-368
Stanton, Gareth (1994), “Chapter 8, “The Play of
Identity: Gibraltar and its Migrants”, in Victoria A.
Goddard, Josep Llobera and Cris Shore, eds., The
Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boundaries in
Conflict. Oxford: Berg
Stanton, Gareth (1996), “Ethnography, Anthropology
and Cultural Studies: Links and Connections”, in James
Curran, et al, Cultural Studies and Communications.
Arnold, London p.334-358
Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth (1980), “Hopes and Reality in
the West Indian Migration to Britain, Oral History, 8
(1), p 36
Watson, Sophie and Katherine Gibson, eds. (1995),
Postmodern Cities and Spaces. Oxford Blackwell
Notably, there is a new crop of journals devoted to the
Black experience world-wide: African Conflict and
Peacebuilding
Review/ http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?
journalCode=africonfpeacrevi//
Amoye: Journal of African Philosophy &
Studies/// http://www.amoye-journal.com/// // /
Black Theology: An International
Journal/ http://www.blacktheologyjournal.com/BT/
Fire!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black
Studies/ http://www.fire-jbs.org/ International Journal
of Africana
Studies/ http://www.ncbsonline.org/international_journal
Journal of Africana Religions
http://sites.weinberg.northwestern.edu/joar///
Journal of Black Masculinity
http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ojs/index.php/JBM/about
Ofo: Journal of Transatlantic
Studies/ http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/africana/page96
Philosophia Africana
http://philafricana.iweb.bsu.edu/philafricana_files/Page383
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Spectrum: The Journal on Black Men
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?
journalCode=spectrum
Appendix IV. Selected Bibliography
For Decolonising Knowledge about
People of African Heritage, in The
Blair Collection
(With details of interest to book buyers, sellers and
second bookshops)
Literature and the Arts
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. I. From the
Pharaohs to the fall of the Roman Empire. Menil
Foundation, 1989. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Fine. First
Edition, Second Printing. Distributed by Harvard
University Press, Cambridge. 1991. 0-939594-01-3
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. II. From the
Early Christian era to the Age of Discovery, Part 1.
From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of
Sainthood. By Jean Devisse. Menil Foundation.
Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
1979. Hard cover and dust jacket mint condition 0-
939594-02-1.
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. II. From the
Early Christian Era to the Age of Discovery, Part 2.
Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World
(Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century). Morrow, New
York 1979. Hard cover and dust jacket mint condition 0688-03458-8.
The Image of the Black in Western Art. IV From the
American Revolution to World War I, Part 1. Slaves to
Liberators. Hugh Honour, compiler, Menil Foundation.
Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge
and London 1989. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket near Fine,
with slight tear at upper top. 0-93954-17-X.
The Image of the Black in Western Art. IV From the
American Revolution to World War I, Part 2. Black
Models and White Myths. Hugh Honour. Menil
Foundation, 1989. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Fine.
Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 0939594-18-8
Newland, Courtia and Kadija Sesay eds., IC3, The
Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, Hamish
Hamilton, London, 2000. Soft cover, as new
9780241140741
Owusu, Kwesi, ed., Black British Culture & Society, A
Text Reader. Routledge, London, 2000. Soft cover, as
new. 9780415178464
Phillips, Mike & Trevor Phillips, Windrush: The
Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain, Harper
Collins, London, 1998. Hbk, as new 9780002559096
Dabydeen, David, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones eds.,
The Oxford Companion to Black British History, Oxford
University Press 2007. Hbk as new 07801929
Hartigan, Linda Roscoe, Sharing Traditions: Five Black
Artists in Nineteenth-Century America. Published for the
National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian
Institution, by the Smithsonian Institution Press,
Washington, D.C. 1985.Soft cover, excellent condition,
illustrations, documents
Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas, catalogue of
exhibition in De Nieuw Kerk, Amsterdam, Waanders
Publishers Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2008. Hbk as new
with cover photographs in colour.9789040084973
Durett, Dan and Dana F White, An Other Atlanta: The
Black Heritage, A Bicentennial Tour. Sponsored by The
Atlanta Bicentennial Commission, The History Group,
Atlanta, 1975. Soft cover, good condition
African American Art, 2010 calendar, Michael
Rosenfeld Gallery, Pomegranate Communications, CA.
2009. Pbk, good condition 9780764948466
WPA and the Black Artist, New York/Chicago,
November 13 thru January 8th, 1978. Pbk, good
condition.
Higgins Jr, Chester & Orde Coombes, Some Time Ago:
A historical portrait of Black Americans, 1850-1950,
Anchor Press, Doubleday, New York, 1980. Hbk, good
condition, nearly 200 photographs culled from attics,
libraries, and museums. 0-835-12001-X
Ernest Neuschul 1895-1968, A Retrospective Exhibition
of Paintings. 29 October 1988 – 8 January 1989. The
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk,
Leicester, England. 1988. Pbk, b/w illustrations, good
condition The Afro-American Texans, The University of
Texas, Institute of Texan Culture, The Texians and the
Texans series, San Antonio, 1987 2nd revised edition.
Pbk good condition
Coar, Valencia Hollins, A Century of Black
Photographers: 1840-1960. Museum of Art, Rhode
Island School of Design, 1983. Pbk, good condition, soft
cover frayed edges. 0-911517-006
Evidence: New Light on Afro-American Images, Ten.8,
quarterly magazine No. 24, Birmingham, England. Soft
cover, good condition
Black Art, an international quarterly, volume 5, number
2, Jamaica, New York, 1982. Pbk, as new, photos,
illustrations. text . 0145-8116
Lenclud, Gerard, Miroirs du Colonialisme, Ministere de
la Culture, Paris 1997. Soft cover, photos and texte.
Condition excellent as new
Cooper, Clement, DEEP: People of Mixed Race,
ffotogallery, Cardiff, 1996. Paper cover, excellent
condition, photographs and text. 1-872771-25-4
Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in
African-American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 1989,
Soft cover, exhibition catalogue, good condition, 0936227-04-0
De Cock, Liliane and Reginald McGhee, eds., James
Van Der Zee, A Morgan and Morgan Monograph, Dobbs
Ferry, New York, 1973. Hbk, dust jacket with
photograph, mint condition. 0-87100—39-3
The Paloger Collection of Muhammad Ali Memorabilia,
catalogue of auction exhibition. Christie’s Los Angeles.
Beverly Hills, California, October 19, 1997. Hbk, near
mint condition
Piper, Keith, Relocating the Remains, Institute of the
Visual Arts, London, 1999. Hard paper cover, near mint
condition. Probably the most important contemporary
artist in the Black British tradition. 9781899846108
Dennis, Felix & Don Atyeo, Muhammad Ali: The Glory
Years. Ebury Press, London 2002. Hbk perfect
condition as new, photos and text 0091886805
Mapplethorpe, Robert, Black Book, foreword by
Ntozake Shange, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1986.
Soft cover, photographs, good condition. 1st edition. 0312-08302-5
Mapplethorpe, Robert, Robert Mapplethorpe
fotographie, a cura di Germano Celant, Idea Books
Edizione, Publimedia, Venezia, 1983. 88-7017-032-2
Alinder, James, ed., Roy DeCarava: Photographs,
Introduction by Sherry Turner DeCarava, Friends of
Photography, 1981. Hbk, good, DJ frayed, but otherwise
intact. 0-933286-26-0
Elisofon, Eliot, The Sculpture of Africa, text by William
Fagg. Thames and Hudson, London, 1958, hbk 405
photographs. Minimal use. DJ frayed and torn at edges,
but otherwise intact.
Hayes, Harold, Jungle Fever, Jean-Paul Goude. Quartet
Books, London. 1982. Hardcover. Book Condition:
Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 0-70432339-7
The Art of Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual,
text by M Bunch Washington, introduction by John A
Williams. Harry N Abrams, New York, 1973. hbk, dust
jacket as new, illustrations in colour and b/w 0-81090033-5
DeCarava, Roy, The Sound I saw, Improvisation on a
Jazz Theme, Phaidon Press, New York 2001. Hbk, dust
jacket, mint condition, text and author’s photographs 07148-4123-4
Lanker, Brian, foreword by Maya Angelou, I Dream a
World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed
America, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1989, hbk,
Condition: Very Good. 1-55670-063-6
Rovelas, Michel, L’oeuvre de Michel Rovelas dans un
projet d’art noir contemporaine. Black New Arts,
Galerie d’art contemporaine, Paris, du 3 au 15 juin
1991. Perfect condition, soft cover 20pp exhibition
catalogue of this notable painter from francophone
Guadeloupe
Glamour International magazine, 10. Black Women and
Jungle Girls, Ottobre 1987, Firenze, Italia. Photographs,
cartoons, comics, colour and b/w, exotica, good
condition, soft cover, bit frayed
Davidson, Basil, The Story of Africa. Mitchell BeazleyA Channel Four Book, London. Hbk best condition,
photographs, b/w sketches, maps, dust
jacket.9780855335144
Sealy, Mark, ed., Vanley Burke, A Retrospective,
Lawrence & Wishart, London 1993, Intro by Stuart Hall,
commentary by Lola Young. Soft cover, good condition,
photographs, essays,
Cooper, Clement, Presence, Photographs and Text by
Clement Cooper. Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester
1988. 0 948797 20 7. Pbk, good condition
Tulloch, Carol, ed., Black Style. V&A Publications,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2004.
9781851774241. Pbk, good condition
Colures magazine, Issue 95, London, published by
Blackhorse. 9771754055004. As new
Ewing, William A, What is Desire? Thames & Hudson,
London 1999. Soft cover, new condition
9780500281710.
Cohen, Inez Lopez, Our Darktown Press, foreword by
Octavus Roy Cohen, decorations by Margaret Freeman.
Appleton, New York and London, 1932. Hbk, cover
illustration in colour on black, tanned pages
McKay, Claude, Home to Harlem. Avon, New York
1928. Paperback. Book Condition: frayed cover in
colour, separated from glued, tanned pages, 1 middle
page ripped.
Wright, Richard, 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk
History of the Negro in the United States, with
photographs by Edwin Rosskam. First edition, Viking
Press, New York, 1941 hardcover. Book Condition:
Good-. 1st Ed. large 8vo, tan linen cloth binding, cover
is soiled, endpapers tanned and foxed, damp stains on
edges of pages, b/w photographs of black Americans
from the Farm Security Administration, 152 pages.
Well-used
Wright, Richard, Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk
History of the Negro in the United States, with
photographs by Edwin Rosskam. English first edition,
Lindsay Drummond, London. 1947 hbk, frayed dust
jacket
Lamming, George, In the Castle of My Skin, Longman
Caribbean, London. 1st published in this edition 1970.
Hbk, cover in good condition. With sketch of author. 0582-78019-5,
Wright, Richard, White Man Listen, with an introduction
by John A Williams. Doubleday Anchor Book, New
York, 1964 edition, pbk well used.
Carew, Jan, Black Midas, Secker and Warburg, London
1958. Dust jacket in colour, worn
Abrahams, Peter, Tell Freedom Faber and Faber,
London mcmliv. Dust jacket in colour with title in black,
frayed edges.
Abrahams, Peter, Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa,
Knopf, New York 1956. 2nd printing, Hbk and dust
jacket in good condition
Clark, Kenneth, Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social
Power, foreword by Gunnar Myrdal, Harper and Row,
New York, 1965 hbk, dust jacket slightly soiled, gift
signature of author.
Black-Renaissance-Noire, Vol. 1, No. 3,
Spring/Summer 1998, African Studies and the Institute
of African-American Affairs, New York University.
074470914495.
Lamming, George, The Emigrants, Michael Joseph,
London. 1954. Hbk, with dust jacket, good condition.
Sketch of the author
Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness. Sundial press,
New York, with a commentary by Havelock Ellis, 1928
hbk well used
Bradbury, Malcolm, general ed., The Atlas of Literature,
Tiger Books, Twickenham, England, 1998 edition hbk,
good condition, pictures, illustrations, James Baldwin
and some Black British writers included, maps
Heyward, Du Bose, Porgy, decorated by Theodore
Nadejen, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1925, hbk Exlibrary book- has normal wear and may have library
markings/attachments.
Wright, Richard, Native Son, Harper and Brothers, New
York 1940 coloured dust jacket with sketch, owners
small label, has normal wear
We Shall Overcome!, compiled by Guy and Candy
Carawan for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee. Oak Publications, New York 1963. 4th
printing, pbk, well used. Profusely illustrated with b/w
photos. Some edge wear & tear, interior in good
condition. The songs in this book sing a special kind of
short history of many of the major developments &
events of the non-violent movement in the South.
Baschet, Eric, Africa 1900, A Continent Emerges: A
history in documentary photographs. Swan, Productions
AG, ZUG, Switzerland, 1989. Mint condition with
cover. 3-89434-006-1
Fani-Kayode, Rotimi, Black Male/White Male. De
Woelrat, Netherlands, 1988, with photographs, as new.
90-70464-74-8
Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, Viewfinders: Black women
photographers. Writers and Readers Publishing, New
York and London. 1993., used, shop stamp on inside
cover page. 9780863161582
Van Vechten, Carl, Nigger Heaven. Harper Colophon,
1971. Mass Market Paperback. Used, 1st Printing. First
Harper Colophon edition published 1971. 06-091001-1
Blyton, Enid, The Three Golliwogs. Illustration by
Joyce A Johnson. George Newnes, London 5th edition
1951. Hardcover, Wear and tear on cover
Roots: 30th Anniversary Edition, complete discs 1 and
2, 3 and 4, Warner Brothers Entertainment 2007, slight
wear 7321902184616
Long, Richard A, The Black Tradition in American
Dance. Prion, London.1989. As new, but bottom tear on
cover. 9781853750465
Anderson, Sherwood, Dark Laughter. Grosset & Dunlap
1925. Hbk good used condition
Abramz, S, Van Sinterklaas en Pieterbaas door S
Abramz, Uitgaaf van P. van Belkum Az. Te Zutphen.
Twaalf Sinterklaas liedjes Met Pianobegelleiding,
Tweede Druc, nd, with publishers list, colour
illustrations and music scores
Christie’s Amsterdam, Auction 1998, The Africanists.
soft cover, paintings, drawings, colour, b/w
Bannerman, Helen, The Story of Sambo and the Twins. :
A New Adventure of Little Black Sambo. Nisbet & Co.,
London. nd. circa 1936, Hbk worn
Durack, Mary & Elizabeth, Piccaninnies, no details,
hbk, b/w illustrations with text.
Jones, Cordelia et al, Engraved Gardens. Silent Books,
Cambridge, reprint 1989, hbk 1-85183 016 2
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, pictures by Maurice Sendak,
Zlateh the Goat and other stories. Harper and Row, New
York. 1966. Hbk, frayed jacket
Minarik, Else H and Maurice Sendak racontee en
images par, Papa-Ours Revient. L’ecole des loisirs
Paris. Texte francais. 1971. With library stamps on
publishing page
Downey, Kenneth ed. “As we like it” Cookery Recipes
by Famous people, Arthur Barker, London.1950.
illustrated.
Katherine Dunham, and her dancers and musicians, A
Caribbean Rhapsody, Programme, Prince of Wales
Theatre, London, nd, circa 1948. Good condition
A BOOK OF DROLLERIES, edited by AUNT LOUISA
(ed.), Frederick Warne, London and New York:
Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, n.d. possibly 1876.
Hbk, blue cover with titles in “gold” well used, frayed
edges, with colour illustrations, music and
accompaniments
Kemble, Comical Coons, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner
& Co., London. No Jacket. First edition. 1898. Fair
condition. Oblong format. Hbk. Pictorial front cover.
B/w illustrations with humorous lines beneath. Cover
worn, frayed edges, some soiling.
Leighton, Clare, Southern Harvest. Victor Gollancz,
1943. Hard cover worn, dusk jacket torn
Powell, Richard J, Black Art and Culture in the 20th
Century. Thames and Hudson, London. 1997
Paperback.9780500202951. New from publisher.
Du- Die Kunstzeitzchrift 12/1983. Weihnachten 1983.
Der schwarze Konig. Zurich. Pp. 128. Soft cover.
Magazine. Very good
Freeman, Roland L, Southern Roads, City Pavements,
International Center of Photography, New York 1981.
Pp. 107 Soft cover. Photographs. Very Good 0-93364204-0
Parkinson, Norman, Norman Parkinson – Lifework.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1984, Soft cover.
Photographs and text. Very Good. 0 297 78497 8
Morrison, Keith, Art in Washington and its AfroAmerican Presence: 1940-1970. Washington Project for
the Arts. Washington. 2004Exhibition paintings and text.
Pp. 110. Very Good. Soft cover.
Derricks, Clinton, Buy Golly! – The history Black
collectables. New Cavendish, London 2005 Soft cover.
Very good. Pp. 208. 9781872727288
Untold – Making a Difference magazine, no. 2,
August/September 1998. London. Pp. 114. Very good.
9771462649007
White, Sarah, Roxy Harris and Sharmilla Beezmohun, A
Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair
of Radical Black and Third World Books Revisited -:
History, Memoirs, Organisation and Programmes 19821995. New Beacon Books and George Padmore
Institute, London, 2005. Very good, Hardcover.
9781873201183
Locke, Alain, edited and annotated, The Negro in Art: A
Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and the Negro
Theme in Art. Hacker Art Books, New York. 1979. 3rd
printing. Hard cover. b/w paintings and illustrations,
very good condition, original pub. in 1940. 0-87817013-8.
DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes, The Sweet
Flypaper of Life. Howard University Press, Washington,
D.C. 1984. Pp.112. Hard cover. Very good 0-88258152-X
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance.
Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London. 1997,
Very good, with inked inscription by Richard Powell,
curator and Paul Gilroy, contributor to the exhibition.
9781853321634
New York/Chicago: WPA and the Black Artist. Studio
Museum in Harlem, New York. 1978. pp. 22. Soft
cover. Very good
Laffont, Editions Robert, L’Exotisme coloniale. Cent
cinquante photographies du debut du siècle. Preface de
Christian Maurel.Poitiers. 2-221-50187-X
Politics, Sociology and History
Nkrumah, Kwame, Address delivered by Osagyefo Dr
Kwame Nkrumah to Mark the Opening of the First
International Congress of Africanists held at Great Hall
of the University of Ghana, 1962, Published by The
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Accra,
Ghana. English and French translation, good condition
The Black Scholar, Journal of Black Studies and
Research, various single issues from 1969. Enquiries
welcome.
Davidson, Basil, Africa: History of a Continent,
Weidenfield & Nicolson, London, 1966. Hbk, photos
and text good condition, Dust jacket torn at corners
Barrow, Christine and Rhoda Reddock, eds, Caribbean
Sociology: Introductory Readings, Ian Randle, Kingston,
Markus Weiner, Princeton, James Currey, Oxford,,
2001. Soft cover, excellent condition
Gayle Jr, Addison, ed., The Black Aesthetic,
Doubleday, New York, 1971. Hbk, good condition, exlibrary stamp inside cover
Mandela, Nelson, The Illustrated Long Walk to
Freedom, can’t see details, probably Published by
Little, Brown & Company in 1996. Hardback, with
photographs. Dust Jacket with edge wear. 208 pages.
Good Condition for sensible price. Ex-library book
(usual stamps and marks).
Free Nelson Mandela, festival concert book, His 70th
Birthday Tribute Concert, foreword by Winnie Mandela,
Introduced by Mary Benson, Penguin Books, London.
Soft cover, good condition
Mandela, Nelson, Long Walk to Freedom, Little, Brown
& Company in UK, 1994. Hardback, with photographs
and text 630 pages. As new, with gift inscription.
9780316909655
Freyre, Gilberto, Em Torno De Um Novo Conceito De
Tropicalismo. Universidade de Coimbra, Editora
Coimbra, Brasil, 1952. Pbk, text in Portuguese, tanned
pages, good condition, inscription by author
Duignan, Peter and Clarence Lendenen, The United
States and the African Slave Trade 1619-1862. Hoover
Institution Studies, Stanford University, 1963. Pbk, good
condition
Frobenius, Leo, Der Kopf Als Schicksal. Kurt Wolf
Verlag, Munchen, 1924. Hbk, text in German and,
illustrations and drawings mainly of African heads, well
used, cover frayed and stained good condition, -exlibrary Suid-Afrikaanse Institute, Amsterdam
Mandela, Foreword Kofi Annan, Introduction
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Bloomsbury with P Q
Blackwell, 2006. Hbk, as new, 9780747581703
Pascoe, Peggy, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation
Law and the Making of Race in America. Oxford
University Press, New York, 2009. Hbk, as new 978-019-509463-3
Shaw, Bernard, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her
Search for God, Dodd, Mead, New York, 1933
Frazier, E Franklin, Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a
New Middle Class. Free Press and Collier-Macmillan,
1957. Pbk, well used. Viewpoints on middle-class
American Negroes, analysing 'the behaviour, values, and
attitudes of a group which has become isolated' having
broken 'with its own cultural traditions'.
Sutton, Constance and Elsa M Chaney, Caribbean Life in
New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions, The Center
for Migration Studies of New York, 1994 edition. Soft
cover, as new pbk 0-913256-92-7
Freedom: A Photographic History of the African
American Struggle. Text by Manning Marable and Leith
Mullings. Phaidon Press 2002. Book Condition: As
new, but spine breeched slightly. 9780714842707.
Kaplan, Sydney, The Black Presence in the Era of the
American Revolution 1770-1800. National Portrait
Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Smithsonian
Institution, and City of Washington, Published 1973 by
the New York Graphic Society. Paper, excellent
condition, colour, b/w photos, b/w; reproductions and
original documents. 0-8212-0541-5
Davidson, Basil, A Guide to African History: A general
survey of the African Past from Earliest Times to the
Present, Zenith Books-Doubleday, New York, 1965
Egerton, Douglas R, Death or Liberty: African
Americans and Revolutionary America, Oxford
University Press 2009. 9780195306699
Pole, J R, The Decision for American Independence,
Foundations of Modern History, Edward Arnold,
London 1975. 0 7131 5972 3
Pole, J R, Freedom of Speech: right or privilege?, The
John M Olin Programme on Politics, Morality and
Citizenship, The Institute of United States Studies,
University of London, 1998
Minority Peoples in a Nation at War, The Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science,
September 1942
Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism and Selfdetermination, Pathfinder Press, New York, 1967
Said, Edward W, From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap.
Bloomsbury, London. 2004. Hbk, excellent condition,
snipped bottom corner of dust jacket. 9780747573432
Douce France, La Saga du Mouvement Beur, Une
enquete de Ahmed Boubeker et Mogniss H Abdallah,
IM’media, Quo Vadis, la revue de l’agence IM’media
(L’agence de l’immigration et des cultures urbaines,
Paris. Numero special, automne-hiver 1993. With
photographs, historical reflections on Algerians in
France. Soft cover, good condition
Brown, Kevin, Malcolm X: His Life and Legacy.
Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Conn. 1995, pbk,
photographs, good condition 9781562948900
Adolf, Arnold, Malcolm X, illus. John Wilson. A
Crowell Biography, Thomas Y Crowell, New York.
1970. Pbk good condition
Clark, Kenneth, The Negro Protest: talks with James
Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Beacon
{Press, 1963
Encore, monthly news magazine, May 1973, 1st
anniversary issue, Malcolm X poster inside with
photographs, drawings, poetry and prose.
Reid, Ira De Augustine, The Negro Immigrant: His
background, characteristics and social adjustment,
1899-1937, PhD, Columbia University, New York,
Columbia University Press, 1939. Frayed edges, broken
spine, ex-university library
Simon, Sir Ernest, Rebuilding Britain – A Twenty Year
Plan. Gollancz, London. 1945. Hardback with dust
jacket. Condition: Good. Tear on dust jacket with frayed
edges.
Blackwell, James E and Morris Janowitz eds., Black
Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
and London. 0-226-055656-3.
Stanfield II, John H, A History of Race Relations
Research: First-Generation Recollections. A Sage
Focus Edition, London 1993. Condition good. 0-80395005-5 pbk
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro. Survey Graphic,
New York, March 1925. Special reprint, portrait of
Roland Hayes. Soft cover 0-933121-05-9
Schoener, Allon, ed., Preface by Thomas P F Hoving.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition, Harlem on My
Mind: Cultural capital of Black America, 1900-1968,
Random House, New York. soft cover in colour 1968
Cunard, Nancy, ed., Negro: An Anthology, with intro by
Hugh Ford, with many illustrations. Frederick Ungar,
New York 2nd printing 1979. Frederick Ungar, New
York 0-8044-1210-3, hard cover. Note: originally
published 1934 by a small London firm
Rummel, Jack, Malcolm X: Militant Black Leader,
Black Americans of Achievement series, Intro by
Coretta Scott King. Chelsea House Publishers, 1989 soft
cover colour dust jacket of Malcolm x, and b/w
photographs, excellent condition 9780791002278
Kenyatta, Jomo, Kenya: The Land of Conflict, PanAf
Service, International African Service Bureau (IASB)
Publications, London, nd, pamphlet, good condition,
signed by author
Banlieue De Paris: Insolite et Secrete, Editions Jonglez,
2005. Soft cover, Glossy paper excellent condition
9782915807042
Ndiaye, Pap, La Condition Noire: essai sur une minorite
francaise, Calman-Levy, Paris 2008 soft cover, as new,
9782702138076
N’Diaye, Jean-Pierre, Negriers moderns, Editions
Presence Africaine, soft cover, author’s inscription
Cesaire, Aime, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal.
Editions Presence Africaine, Paris-Dakar, 1983. soft
cover, good condition, 9782708704206
Du Bois, Dr William Edward Burghardt, Funeral
address by Rev William Howard Melish, at the Aggrey
Memorial Church, Achimota College, Accra, Ghana, on
Sunday 29th September 1963. Printed in Brooklyn, New
York. soft cover pamphlet, frayed cover edges but good
condition
Sancho, Ignatius, Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an
African, to which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life, Vol.
I. Printed by J Nichols, London, MDCCLXXXII. With
plate of Ignatius Sancho. Brown cover stained, frayed
edges
Washington, Booker T, Up from Slavery, an
autobiography. Thomas Nelson, London, Edinburgh,
New York. nd, hbk, good condition
Kennedy, John F, Why England Slept, Hutchinson,
London and Melbourne. 1940, hbk tear in stitching,
well-used
Willkie, Wendell, One World. Pocket Book Edition,
Rockefeller Center, New York, pbk, 3rd printing 1948.
Enwezor, Okwui ed., The Short Century: Independence
and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994
(African, Asian & Oceanic Arts) [Hardcover]
Illustrated and Children’s Stories
Cooke, Trish, iluustrated by Helen Oxenbury, So Much.
Walker books, London, 1996 edition. Pbk, as new
illustrations and text. 9780744543964
Blyton, Enid, The Little Black Doll, A Sunshine Picture
Story Book. World Distributors, Manchester, England,
printed in The Netherlands MCMXXXVII. PBK GOOD
CONDITION.
Burningham, John, Trublott: The mouse who wanted to
play the balalaika. Written and illustrated by the author.
Pan Books, London. 2nd printing 1974, firm soft cover,
illustrations in colour
Cooper, Floyd, Coming Home, from the Life of Langston
Hughes. Philomel, New York. Hbk, as new, illustrations
and text. 0-399-22682-6.
Hoffman, Mary and Caroline Binch, Amazing Grace,
Frances Lincoln, London 1991. Soft cover, illustrations,
excellent condition. 0-7112-0699-6
Barnes-Murphy, Rowan, One, Two Buckle My Shoe, A
Book of Counting Rhymes, Picture Knight, Hodder and
Stoughton, 1987, small book, soft cover and pages, good
condition
Sendak, Maurice, Pierre, a Cautionary Tale, Collins,
London. 1962. Small book, Good condition, colour
drawings throughout
Crowe, Mrs, Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Children, George
Routledge and Sons, London, New York, nd small book,
embossed cover, with 1 colour plates and b/w sketches.
Binding is a little worn; contents generally bright.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A Tale of
Life among the Lowly, with a preface by the Right Hon.
The Earl of Carlisle. George Routledge, London 1858.
Embossed colour cover with black print title, frayed
edges, Paper browned
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, La Case de l’Oncle Tom.
Meline, Cans, libraires-editeurs, Bruxelles, 1852 hbk
cover plain, good condition, Paper browned
Floyer, Ella B, Efiong, A Little Boy of Africa, pictures
by Mabel K Peacock, Playmate Book, London, 1935
Hard Cover. Small book. Sl. over 4"high by 4" and a
half. Illustrated in partial colour and b/w. Paper
browned. Original paper covered boards, with cover
picture.
Bannerman, Helen, The Story of Little Black Quibba.
Musson Books, Toronto, nd circa 1903-06. Small book,
hbk binding damaged, all pages present, child’s scribble
inside cover as many children books have
Bannerman, Helen, The Story of Little Black Mingo. 2nd
edition, James Nisbet, London. Small book, Colour
drawings throughout, nd, hbk good condition.
Christie, Agatha, Ten Little Niggers, Fontana Books,
Collins, London 13th impression 1971, pbk well used.
Blyton, Enid, The Golliwog Grumbled. Hodder &
Stoughton, London, Leicester, Sydney Auckland,
illustrated by Molly Brett, nd In colour cover and inside
b/w sketches
Tredinnick, Robert, The Frog and the Golliwog and
other stories, illus by John Read, Brockhampton Press,
Leicester, England, hbk, well used cover and inside
sketches in colour and b/w
Broos, Piet, De Grote Reis Naar Nederland, illustraties
van deschrijver. H Meulenhoff, Amsterdam.hbk, wellused, ex-library, nd
Blyton, Enid, The Little Black Doll, A sunshine picture
storybook, World Distributors (Manchester), England,
printed in the Netherlands (c) Enid Blyton
MCMXXXVII, illustrated, pbk, good condition
Bannerman, Helen, The Story of Little Black Sambo,
told and pictured by Helen Bannerman, Chatto &
Windus, London. 07011 00230. With the new cutout
model, 1975. Illustrated. Spiral bound, well used
Comics
Herge, Les Aventures de Tintin, Tintin Au Congo,
Castermann, 1974. Hbk, colour illustrations, good
condition, 2-203-00101-1, mint condition
Knuude naar Afrika. publisher Knuude, Belge, 1985,
colour illustrations. 90-6232 622 6, mint condition
Music: Classical, Blues, Jazz and Reggae
Van Rijn, Guido, Roosevelt’s Blues: African American
Blues and Gospel Songs for FDR. University Press of
Mississippi, Jackson, 1997. Pbk has references,
discography. 0-87805-938-5
Fordham, John, JAZZ: History. Instruments. Musicians.
Recordings, foreword by Sonny Rollins. Dorling
Kindersley, London. nd., Hbk, photographs, music
scores, dust jacket good condition, ex-library and stamp.
9780751300505
Robeson, Paul, Summer Tour, Paul Robeson and
Lawrence Brown in Songs of the Folk, with Dorcas
McLean, violinist, and Michal Hambourg, pianist, Under
direction of Harold Holt, Golders Green Hippodrome,
London, Sunday, July 23rd, 1939. Paper, with colour
painting on cover
A Moslem Sings: A White Man’s Heaven...is a Black
Man’s hell. Muhammad’s Temple No. 11, Boston, Mass,
extended play 45 RPM, Part One and Two, Vocal by
Louis X. [Probably young Minister Louis Farrakhan.]
Public Relations Department, Muhammad’s Temple of
Islam, Chicago, 33 1/3 rpm record nd with thumbnail
sketch of the Messenger of Allah, Elijah Muhammad
Sephula, Moshe, Twelve Songs in African. Harmony
Music LTD, London 1968. Piano arrangements by John
Ndubuisi, edited by Robin Beaumont
Reggae Philharmonic, Minnie the Moocher. Produced by
Mykaell S Riley. Stereo. London. Dust jacket well
used.5014474037863
More Specials, 2 Tone, Ultra stero, Chrysalis Records
1980
Joplin, Scott, Matt Dennis Plays Scott Joplin, Mel Bay,
Kirkwood, Mo., 1974. Pbk, music scores, good
condition.
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast,
Coleridge Taylor by Sir Malcolm Sargent and the
Philharmonic Orchestra, Stero Long Play, 33 1/3 rpm
record. Dust jacket, record well used
Coleridge-Taylor, Six Negro Melodies, transcribed for
the Piano. Winthrop Rogers, London and Oliver Ditson,
Boston. MCMV. pbk
Young, Bob and Al Stankus, Jazz Cooks: Portraits and
Recipes of the Greats. photography by Debra Feingold.
Stewart, Tobori and Chang, New York. 1992. Pbk
colour cover, photos in b/w.9781556701924
Katherine Dunham’s Journey to Accompong, pictures by
Ted Cook. Henry Holt. New York, 1946. Autographed,
in Bogota, 5 February 1951 hbk dust jacket slightly
frayed. Dunham, the foremost African American dancer
of her time, did anthropological studies in Jamaica
during the 1930s, on which this book is based.
Longfellow, H.W and S Coleridge-Taylor, Scenes from
the Song of Hiawatha, Novello, London. Novello’s
Original Octave Edition. 1900, hbk, edges frayed
Gammond, Peter, Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era.
Abacus, London 1975, pbk, library stamp, some
markings. Illustrated and pictures b/w
Schleman, Hilton R, Rhythm on Record: complete
survey and register of dance hall music 1906-1936,
Melody Maker, London. 1936, torn cover
Oliver, Paul, Savannah Syncopators: African retentions
in the Blues. Studio Vista, London, 1970. Hard cover,
289-79828-0. library stamp on publication page.
Jones, Le Roi, Blues People: Negro music in White
America. Jazz Book Club & MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.
Hard cover
Ellington, Edward Kennedy, Music is my Mistress.
Quartet Books, London 1977, Paperback 0-7043-3090-3
Goddard, Chris, Jazz Away from Home. Paddington
Press, New York and London. 1979. Hard Cover.
Inscription
Godbolt, Jim, A History of Jazz in Britain 1919-50.
Quartet Books, London 1984. 0-7092-0270-2 Hard
Cover, library stamp 0-7043-2452-0
Oliver, Paul, The Story of the Blues, Penguin Books,
London. 1972, paperback
Wilmer, Valerie, The Face of Black Music. Photographs
by Valerie Wilmer. Introduction by Archie Shepp. Da
Capo Press, New York 1976. 0-306-70756-X
Unnumbered pages. Hard cover. Very good
Sports
Mullan, Harry, The Great Book of Boxing: The
illustrated history of boxing from the 1890s to the
present. Crescent Books, revised and updated edition,
copyright Hamlyn, New York. ex-library, hbk, good
condition, colour dust jacket, photos of Sugar Ray
Leonard and Marvin Hagler on the front, Muhammad Ali
on the back, illustrated most b/w, some in colour.
045863028938
Amin, Mohamed, Cradle of Mankind, Chatto & Windus,
London. 0-7011-2587-X. Hbk. Ex-library Colour dust
jacket with photo, good condition, foreword page loose
Batchelor, Denzil, British Boxing, with plates in colour
and illustrations in black and white. Collins,
London.MCMXLVIII, hbk, jacket frayed edges
otherwise good condition.
Famous Sporting Printing Prints, VI- Boxing. The studio
Limited, London and New York. 1930. Colour prints,
frayed edges, stain on bottom back cover
Reference and Black urban studies
Myrdal, Gunnar, An American Dilemma: The Negro
Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume II. Harper &
Brothers, New York and London, 5th edition,
1944.owners label
Hutchinson, Louise Daniel, The Anacostia Story: 16081930, Published for Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
of the Smithsonian Institution, by the Smithsonian
Institution Press, City of Washington, 1977. Soft cover,
excellent condition, illustrations, historic city documents
Davis, John O, ed., The American Negro Reference
Book, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 5th printing 1967
Smythe, Mabel, ed., The Black American Reference
Book, sponsored by the Phelps Stokes Fund 1976 0-13077586-XEdwards, G Franklin, Franklin Frazier on
Race Relations Selected writings edited and with an
Introduction by G Franklin Edwards. University of
Chicago Press. 1968. Good condition, loose cover, left
inside panel missing
Robin, Nelly, Atlas des migrations ouest-africaines vers
l’Europe 1985-1993, Eurostatat ORSTOM, Paris 1996.
Soft cover, good condition 2-7099-1347-X,
Acquah, Ione, Accra Survey, (of the capital of Ghana),
University of London Press, London, 1958. Hbk maps,
tables photographs. Good condition
Thernstrom, Stephan, ed., Ann Orlov and Oscar
Handlin, Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic
Groups, The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
1980. Hbk blue cover
Harris, Roxy Harris & Sarah White, ed., Building
Britannia: Life Experience With Britain. New Beacon
Books, London 2009
Cross, Malcolm and Michael Keith in Racism, the City
and the State Routledge, London and New York 1993.
Appendix V. THE BLAIR
COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH
LIBRARY – Selected examples at
July 2012
Agriculture
Title: The land to those who work it : Algeria's
experiment in workers' management / [by] Thomas L
Blair Author: Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair
Publication Details: Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday,
1969. Physical Description: viii, 275 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply AL69/2365 General
Reference Collection X.529/18009
Africa
Title: Africa: a market profile [With plates] Author:
Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair Publication Details:
London : Business Publications, 1965. Physical
Description: xi, 260 p. ; 8º. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.519/1490;
Document Supply W39/2144
Title: Materials for West African history in the archives
of Belgium and Holland Author: Patricia CARSON
Publication Details: London : Athlone Press, 1962.
Physical Description: viii, 86 p. ; 8º. Series: [Guides to
materials for West African history in European archives.
no. 3.] Shelfmark(s): Document Supply W39/0782
General Reference Collection YA.1997.a.11034.
General Reference Collection 2761.gk.1/1.
Art and Architecture
Title: Glyn Philpot, 1884-1937 : Edwardian aesthete to
thirties modernist / Robin Gibson ; [catalogue edited by
Paula Iley] Author: Robin Gibson
Contributor: Glyn Philpot 1884-1937; Paula Iley;
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publication Details: London : National Portrait Gallery,
c1984. Language: English Notes: Catalogue of an
exhibition held at The National Portrait Gallery 9
November 1984-10 February 1985. Physical
Description: 148p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ;
25cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply GPB-4664
General Reference Collection LB.31.b.13583 Title: The
struggle for black arts in Britain : what can we consider
better than freedom / by Kwesi Owusu Author: Kwesi
Owusu
Publication Details: London : Comedia, 1986.
Language: English Physical Description: 171p. : ill.,
ports. ; 22cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection YC.1988.a.5803
Document Supply 86/17607
Title: White papers, black marks : architecture, race,
culture / edited by Lesley Naa Norle Lokko Contributor:
Lesley Lokko
Publication Details: London : Athlone Press, 2000.
Language: English Physical Description: 272p. : ill. ;
25cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply m04/23289
General Reference Collection YC.2002.a.19981
Cities and Urbanisation
Title: Breaking the boundaries : a one-world approach
to planning education / edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal
Contributor: Bishwapriya Sanyal
Publication Details: New York ; London : Plenum,
c1990. Physical Description: x,267p. ; 24cm. Series:
Urban innovation abroad Shelfmark(s): Document
Supply 90/17882 General Reference Collection
YC.1990.b.7213 Title: The poverty of planning Author:
Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair
Publication Details: London: Macdonald and Co.,
[1973]. Language: English Physical Description: pp.
260; maps. 23 cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection X.529/16355;
Document Supply 73/6825
Title: Strengthening urban management : international
perspectives and issues / edited by Thomas L Blair
Contributor: Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair
Publication Details: New York ; London : Plenum in
cooperation with The International Union of Local
Authorities, c1985. Physical Description: xi,358p. : ill.,
maps ; 24cm. Series: Urban innovation abroad
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.1986.b.698 Document Supply 85/33639 Title:
Urban innovation abroad : problem cities in search of
solutions / edited by Thomas L Blair Contributor:
Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair
Publication Details: New York ; London : Plenum,
c1984. Physical Description: ix,414p. : ill., maps ;
24cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
X.520/34708 Document Supply 84/07540 Title: The
Urbanization revolution : planning a new agenda for
human settlements / edited by Richard May Jr
Contributor: Richard May Publication Details: New
York ; London : Plenum, 1989. Physical Description:
xv,271p. ; 24cm. Series: Urban innovation abroad;
Urban innovation abroad Shelfmark(s): Document
Supply 89/20219 General Reference Collection
YC.1990.b.1388
Criminal Justice
Title: Black women's experiences of criminal justice : a
discourse on disadvantage / Ruth Chigwada-Bailey ;
foreword by Sylvia Denman Author: Ruth ChigwadaBailey
Publication Details: Winchester : Waterside, 1997.
Language: English Physical Description: 144p. ; 22cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.1998.a.1132
Cyberactivism
Title: The audacity of cyberspace : the struggle for
internet power / Thomas L Blair Author: Thomas Lucien
Vincent Blair
Publication Details: Cambridge, England : Cambridge
International Academics Press, c2009. Language:
English Physical Description: 138 p. ; 22 cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YK.2011.a.1207
Higher Education
Title: Rape of reason : the corruption of the Polytechnic
of North London / Keith Jacka, Caroline Cox, John
Marks Author: Keith Jacka
Contributor: Caroline Cox 1937- ;
John Marks 1934-2012.
Publication Details: Enfield 2 Cecil Court, London Rd,
Enfield, Middx. : Churchill Press Ltd, 1975. Physical
Description: vi,148p. ; 18cm. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.519/25350 Document Supply
76/1293
Housing
Title: Focus on Liverpool
Journal citation: Black Housing, vol.10, no.4, July-Sept.
1994
Pagination: 34p
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 2105.950600 General
Reference Collection ZC.9.b.5637 Title: Hackney
housing investigated / a summary of the Commission for
Racial Equality's formal investigation into the allocation
of public housing in the London Borough of Hackney
Author: Great Britain Commission for Racial Equality
Publication Details: London : The Commission, 1984.
Language: English Physical Description: 47p. : ill.,
1map ; 15x21cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection X.529/64838 Title: A minority in a welfare
state society: the location of West Indians in the
London housing market
Author: Roy F. Haddon
Journal Citation: The New Atlantis, vol. 2, no. 1, 1970
Pagination: p.80-133
Shelfmark: Document Supply 6082.140000
Black Community - Britain
Title: The Arrivants : a pictorial essay on blacks in
Britain / by the Race Today Collective Contributor:
Race Today Collective.
Publication Details: London : Race Today, 1987.
Language: English Physical Description: 112p. : ill. ;
21cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YV.1990.a.291 Title: Aspects of British black history /
Peter Fryer Author: Peter Fryer 1927Publication Details: London : Index Books, c1993.
Language: English Physical Description: 56p. ; 21cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YK.1995.a.3134 Title: Aunt Esther's story / by Stephen
Bruce and Esther Bruce Author: Esther Bruce
Contributor: Stephen Bourne 1957 Oct. 31- ;
Ethnic Communities Oral History Project.
Publication Details: London : ECOHP, [1997?]
Language: English Edition: [New ed.]. Notes: Previous
ed.: published as The sun shone on our side of the street
/ by Stephen Bourne. 1991. Physical Description: 20p. :
ill., ports. ; 30cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection YK.1997.b.6731 Title: Black Britain With an
account of recent events at the Institute of Race
Relations by Alexander Kirby Author: Chris
MULLARD Contributor: Alexander Kirby
Publication Details: London : Allen und Unwin, 1973.
Physical Description: 194 p. ; 23 cm. Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection X.529/15824. Title:
Black Londoners, 1880-1990 / Susan Okokon Author:
Susan Okokon
Publication Details: Stroud : Sutton, 1998. Language:
English Physical Description: 126p. : ill., ports. ; 25cm.
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 98/32058 General
Reference Collection YC.1999.b.664 Title: Building
Britannia : life experience with Britain / edited by Roxy
Harris and Sarah White Contributor: Roxy Harris
Sarah White 1941George Padmore Institute.
Publication Details: London : New Beacon Books for
the George Padmore Institute, 2009. Language: English
Notes: “Building Britannia emerged from a series of
talks and conversations in front of an audience at the
George Padmore Institute during 1999”--P. vi. Includes
bibliographical references and index. Physical
Description: vii, 293 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Series: Life experience with Britain ; v. 2 Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection YK.2011.a.2726 Title:
Changing Britannia : life experience with Britain /
edited by Roxy Harris and Sarah White Contributor:
Roxy Harris ;
Sarah White 1941-;
George Padmore Institute.
Publication Details: London : New Beacon, 1999.
Language: English Notes: Sessions from the series of
talks and conversations entitled “Life experience with
Britain” held at the George Padmore Institute in 1997.
Published for the George Padmore Institute. Includes
discography, bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: vii,248p. : ports. ; 22cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.1999.a.1988 Document Supply m06/.40029 Title:
Colour and citizenship A report on British race relations
[By] E J B Rose, in association with Nicholas Deakin
[and others], etc Author: Institute of Race Relations
Contributor: Nicholas Deakin; Eliot Joseph Benn ROSE
Publication Details: London, etc.: published for the
Institute of Race Relations [by] Oxford University Press,
1969. Physical Description: pp. xxiii, 815: illus., maps.
23 cm. bibl. pp. 797-805. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.809/6377. Title: Coloured
immigrants in Britain : a select bibliography / compiled
by A Sivanandan Author: A Sivanandan (Ambalavaner),
1923Contributor: Institute of Race Relations.
Publication Details: London : Institute of Race
Relations, 1967. Language: English Edition: 2nd ed..
Physical Description: vi, 82 p. ; 21 cm. Shelfmark(s):
Asia, Pacific & Africa T 22874 Title: Forging a black
community : Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in
Newham Contributor: Campaign Against Racism and
Fascism. ;
Newham Monitoring Project.
Publication Details: London : Newham Monitoring
Project/Campaign Against Racism and Facism, 1991.
Language: English Physical Description: 63p. ; 21cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YK.1993.a.3476 Title: Racialised barriers : the Black
experience in the United States and England in the
1980's / Stephen Small Author: Stephen Small
Publication Details: London : Routledge, 1994.
Language: English Physical Description: viii,247p. ;
23cm. Series: Critical studies in racism and migration;
Critical studies in racism and migration Shelfmark(s):
Document Supply 96/23093 General Reference
Collection YC.1994.a.3384 Title: Taking a stand : Gus
John speaks on education, race, social action & civil
unrest 1980-2005 Author: Gus John
Publication Details: Manchester : Gus John Partnership,
2006. Language: English Physical Description: 608 p. ;
22 cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply m06/.30401
General Reference Collection YC.2008.a.5588
Black Community - Britain- West Indians
Title: Black testimony : the voices of Britain's West
Indians / Thomas J Cottle Author: Thomas J Cottle
Publication Details: London : Wildwood House, 1978.
Language: English Physical Description: 184p. ; 23cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
X.529/50180 Document Supply 78/31180 Title: Dark
Strangers A study of West Indians in London (Abridged
edition) Author: Sheila Caffyn PATTERSON
Publication Details: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books,
1965. Physical Description: 379 p. ; 8º. Series: [Pelican
Book. no. A716.] Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012209.d.4/716
Document Supply W46/7814. Title: Journey to an
illusion : the West Indian in Britain / Donald Hinds
Author: Donald Hinds
Publication Details: London : Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1966
2001 [printing] Language: English Notes: First
published: London : Heinemann, 1966. Physical
Description: xxiv, 200 p. ; 22cm. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection YC.2002.a.21571 Title: West
Indian children in London Author: Katrin
FITZHERBERT
Publication Details: London : G. Bell & Sons, 1967.
Physical Description: 111 p. ; 8º. Series: [Occasional
papers on social administration. no. 19.] Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 8299.i.7/19. Document
Supply 6224.970000 v19 Title: The West Indians in
Britain / Dave Saunders Author: Dave Saunders 1951
Nov 4Publication Details: London : Batsford Academic and
Educational, 1984. Language: English Physical
Description: 72p. : ill., 2facsims.,2maps,ports. ; 26cm.
Series: Communities in Britain
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
X.520/36590
Document Supply 87/19360
Britain
Title: I see modern Britain / Norman Ferguson and
Mary-Claire Kelly Author: Norman Ferguson
Contributor: Mary-Claire Kelly
Publication Details: London : Portico, 2008. Language:
English Physical Description: 112 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YK.2010.a.6553 Title: Popular culture : the
metropolitan experience / Iain Chambers Author: Iain
Chambers
Publication Details: London : Methuen, 1986. Language:
English Physical Description: xii,244p. : ill. ; 21cm.
Series: Studies in communication; Studies in
communication (Methuen & Co.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection YC.1986.a.4924 General
Reference Collection YK.1986.a.1889
British Empire
Title: Black people in the British Empire : an
introduction / Peter Fryer Author: Peter Fryer 1927Publication Details: London : Pluto, 1988. Physical
Description: [128]p. ; 22cm. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection YH.1989.a.151 Document Supply
88/24948
Title: The Ibo and Ibibio Speaking Peoples of SouthEastern Nigeria [With a map] Author: Cyril Daryll
Forde 1902Contributor: Gwilym Iwan JONES
Publication Details: London : International African
Institute, 1950. Language: English Physical Description:
94 p. ; 8º. Series: Ethnographic Survey of Africa.
Western Africa. pt. 3.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
Ac.2272.c.31.(3.) Title: The Royal Primrose atlas of the
British Empire Contributor: John Knight (Firm)
Publication Details: London : John Knight Ltd, The
Royal Primrose Soap Works, [ca. 1935] Language:
English Notes: The date is an estimate based on the
latest date (1934) mentioned in the text. It was perhaps
produced as promotional material for the 1935 jubilee.
Physical Description: 1 atlas ([16]p) ; 25cm.; Scales
differ. Shelfmark(s): Cartographic Items Maps 228.a.80.
Title: The Tiger Kills The story of the Indian Divisions
in the North African campaign, etc (By Lieut-Colonel-W
G Hingston and Lieut-Colonel G R Stevens) [With
plates] Publication Details: London : H. M. Stationery
Office, 1944. Language: English Physical Description:
195 p. ; 8º. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
I.S.304/7. Asia, Pacific & Africa T 2820 Document
Supply OP-GPA/8605 Title: The Yoruba-Speaking
Peoples of South-Western Nigeria [With a map and a
bibliography] Author: Cyril Daryll Forde 1902Publication Details: London : International African
Institute, 1951. Language: English Physical Description:
102 p. ; 8º. Series: Ethnographic Survey of Africa.
Western Africa. pt. 4. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection Ac.2272.c/31.(3.)
Ethnic Minorities - Britain
Title: Multi-ethnic Britain : facts and trends :
Conference entitled “The future of multi-ethnic Britain:
challenges, changes and opportunities” : Papers
Publication Details: The Runnymede Trust, 1994.
Language: English Shelfmark(s): Document Supply
q96/00453 Title: A social atlas of London / John
Shepherd, John Westaway, Trevor Lee Author: Trevor
Lee Contributor: John Shepherd; John Westaway
Publication Details: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1974.
Language: English Physical Description: 1 atlas (128p) ;
22x30cm. Shelfmark(s): Cartographic Items Maps
223.b.15.
Title: Ethnic minorities in Britain Author: Ernest Krausz
Publication Details: London : Paladin, 1972. Physical
Description: 175 p. ; 20 cm. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.700/11803.
Health and Social Care
Title: Ubuntu-Hunhu in Hertfordshire : black Africans in
Herts, health & social care issues : a report on the
action research interventions in the county / authors,
Martha Chinouya, Livingstone Musoro, Eileen O'Keefe
Author: Martha Chinouya
Contributor: Livingstone Musoro; Eileen O'Keefe
Publication Details: St Albans : Crescent Support
Group, 2003. Language: English Notes: Includes
bibliographical references. Physical Description: vi, 53
p. : ill. (some col.), 2 ports. ; 21 cm. Shelfmark(s):
Document Supply m03/38965
Language
Title: Common Indian words in English / compiled and
edited by RE Hawkins Author: R E Hawkins
Publication Details: Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University
Press, 1984. Language: English Physical Description:
vii,106p. ; 19cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection YC.1988.a.9977
Literature - Anthologies
Title: Black writers in Britain, 1760-1890 / selected
and introduced by Paul Edwards and David Dabydeen
Contributor: Paul Geoffrey Edwards 1926-1992; David
Dabydeen
Publication Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University
Press, 1995. Language: English Edition: Repr.. Notes:
Previously published: 1991. Bibliography: 236-239.
Physical Description: xv,239p. ; 22cm. Series: Early
black writers series Shelfmark(s): Open Access
Humanities 1 Reading Room HLR 820.9896 Title:
Extravagant strangers : a literature of belonging / edited
by Caryl Phillips Contributor: Caryl Phillips
Publication Details: London : Faber and Faber, 1997.
Language: English Physical Description: xii,260p. ;
24cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 97/24029
General Reference Collection YC.1997.b.2694 Title:
Modern African prose : an anthology / compiled and
edited by Richard Rive; illustrated by Albert Adams
Contributor: Richard Rive editor. ;
Albert Adams 1929-2006. Publication Details: [S.l.] :
Heinemann Educational Books, 1964. Physical
Description: xv, 214 p. : illus. Series: African writers
series ; no. 9 Shelfmark(s): Document Supply W25/9761
General reference Collection 012212.e.1/9 Title:
Watchers and seekers : creative writing by black women
/ Rhonda Cobham and Merle Collins, editors ;
illustrated by Fyna Dowe Contributor: Rhonda Cobham ;
Merle Collins
Publication Details: London : Women's Press, 1987.
Physical Description: 157p. : ill. ; 20cm. Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection YH.1987.a.150
Literature - Biography
Title: Ignatius Sancho : an African man of letters /
Reyahn King [et al] ; foreword by Caryl Phillips
Publication Details: London : National Portrait Gallery,
c1997. Language: English Notes: “This book has
emerged from an exhibition ... at the National Portrait
Gallery from 24 January to 11 May 1997” -foreword.
Includes bibliography. Physical Description: 124 p. :
ill., facsims.,music,ports. ; 19 cm. Shelfmark(s):
Document Supply 98/08835 General Reference
Collection YC.1997.a.2573 Title: A long way from
home / Claude McKay ; introduction by St Clair Drake
Author: Claude McKay 1890-1948
Publication Details: London : Pluto, 1985. Language:
English Notes: Originally published: New York :
Furman, 1937. Physical Description: xxi,354p. ; 20cm.
Series: Liberation classics
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 98/03462 General
Reference Collection X.958/30882
Literature - Criticism
Title: “Black” British aesthetics today / edited by R
Victoria Arana Contributor: R Arana
Publication Details: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge
Scholars, 2007. Language: English Description:
Contents: The Sankofa tradition : looking back to move
forward -- Critical theories and aesthetic movements -Embodied aesthetics -- Activists in the vanguard of
Black British aesthetics. Physical Description: x, 389 p.
: ill. ; 21 cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply
m07/.21786 Title: Imperialism at home : race and
Victorian women's fiction / Susan Meyer Author: Susan
Meyer 1960- Publication Details: Ithaca, N.Y. ; London
: Cornell University Press, 1996. Language: English
Physical Description: x, 220p. ; 24cm. Series: Reading
women writing
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 96/20777 General
Reference Collection YC.1996.a.4960 Title: The
Invention of ethnicity / edited by Werner Sollors
Contributor: Werner Sollors
Publication Details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford
University Press, 1989 1991 [printing] Language:
English Physical Description: xx,294p. ; 22cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.1991.a.4787
Literature - Drama
Title: I will marry when I want / Ngugi wa Thiong'o and
Ngugi wa Mirii ; translated from the Gikuyu by the
authors Author: Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1938Contributor: Ngug̃ ı ̃ wa Mır̃ iı,̃ 1951-2008.
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1982.
Language: English Uniform Title: Ngaahika ndeenda
English Notes: Translated from Kikuyu. Physical
Description: 122 p. ; 19 cm. Series: African writers
series ; 246 Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.2010.a.9694 Title: Nine African plays for radio
Edited by Gwyneth Henderson & Cosmo Pieterse
Author: Gwyneth HENDERSON and PIETERSE
(Cosmo)
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann, 1973.
Physical Description: pp. xvii, 185. 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. no. 127.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/127
Document Supply 73/2166
Title: Obasai, and other plays Author: Pat Amadu
MADDY
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1971. Notes:
Contents: Obasai-Alla gbah-Ghana-bendu-Yon-Kon.
Physical Description: 184 p. ; 19 cm. Series: (African
writers series. 89.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/89. Title: Short African plays
Edited by Cosmo Pieterse Author: Cosmo PIETERSE
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann, 1972.
Physical Description: pp. x, 242. 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. no. 78.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/78.
Literature - Novels and Short Stories
Title: The African Author: William Farquhar CONTON
Publication Details: Heinemann Educational Books:
London & Ibadan, 1964. Physical Description: 8º.
Series: [African Writers Series. no. 12.] Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/12. Title: An
African Night's Entertainment A tale of vengeance
Illustrated by Bruce Onabrakpeya Author: Cyrian Odiatu
Duaka EKWENSI
Publication Details: Lagos : African Universities Press,
1962. Physical Description: 96 p. ; 8º. Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 11498.t.13.
Title:Ambiguous adventure Translated by Katherine
Woods Author: Hamidou Kane
Contributor: Katherine WOODS
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1972.
Physical Description: 178 p. ; 19 cm. Series: (African
writers series. 119.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/119. Title: Beautiful feathers
Author: Cyrian Odiatu Duaka EKWENSI
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1971. Physical Description: 160 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series, 84.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/84. Title: Behind the
rising sun Author: Sebastian Okechukwu MEZU
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: 241 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. 113.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/113. Title: Bridge to a
wedding / John Munonye Author: John Munonye
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1978. Language: English Physical Description:
[7],228p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 195
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/195 Title: Carcase for hounds Author: Meja
MWANGI
Publication Details: London, etc. : Heinemann
Educational, 1974. Physical Description: 134 p. ; 19
cm. Series: (African writers series. 145.) Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/145. Title:
Chaka / Thomas Mofolo ; new English translation by
Daniel P Kunene Author: Thomas Mofolo 1876-1948
Contributor: Daniel P Kunene
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1981. Notes:
Translation of: Chaka. Physical Description: xxiii,168p.
; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 229
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e1/229
Title: The Concubine Author: Elechi AMADI
Publication Details: London, 1966. Language: English
Physical Description: 8º. Holdings Notes: General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/25. [Another issue.]
Series: [African writers series. no. 25.] Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/25. Title:
Danda Author: Nkem NWANKWO
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1970. Physical Description: 205 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series, 67.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/67. Title: The
detainee / Legson Kayira Author: Legson Kayira
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1974
Language: English Physical Description: 172p. ; 19cm.
Series: African writers series ; 162
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/162 Title: Dying in the sun Author: Peter K
PALANGYO
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1969. Physical Description: 129 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series, 53.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/53. Title: Edith
Jackson / Rosa Guy Author: Rosa Guy Publication
Details: London : Gollancz, 1979. Language: English
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking Press,
1978. Physical Description: [4],187p. ; 21cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection Nov.38457
Title: Efuru Author: Flora NWAPA
Publication Details: London ; Ibadan : Heinemann
Educational Books, 1966. Physical Description: 281 p. ;
8º. Series: [African writers series. no. 26.]
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/26. Title: Girls at war, and other stories
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publication Details: London: Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: ix, 118p. 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. 100.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/100. Title: Going
down River Road / Meja Mwangi Author: Meja
Mwangi
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1976. Language: English Physical Description:
[5],215p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 176
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/176 Title: A grain of wheat Author: James
Thiong'o NGUGI
Publication Details: London, etc.; Heinemann
Educational Books, 1968. Physical Description: pp.
280. 18 cm. Series: (African writers series; 36)
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/36. Title: Heirs to the past / by Driss
Chraibi ; translated by Len Ortzen Author: Driss Chraibi
1926-2007
Contributor: Len Ortzen
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Notes: This translation originally published,
London: Heinemann, 1971. - Translation of 'Succession
ouverte'. Paris: Denoël, 1962. Physical Description:
[4],107p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 79
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/79 Title: Hill of Fools / RL Peteni Author:
R L Peteni (Randall Langa)
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1976. Language: English Physical Description: vii,151p.
; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 178
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/178 Title: Idu Author: Flora NWAPA
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1970. Physical Description: 218 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. no. 56.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/56. Title: The
interpreters With introduction and notes by Eldred Jones
Author: Wole Soyinka
Contributor: Eldred Durosimi JONES
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1970.
Physical Description: 260 p. ; 19 cm. Series: (African
writers series, 76.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection X.908/21666. Title: Kill me quick Author:
Meja MWANGI
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1973. Physical Description: 150 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. 143.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/143. Title: Maru
Author: Bessie Head 1937-1986
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: 127 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. 101.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/101. Title: Mayombe /
Pepetela ; translated from the Portuguese by Michael
Wolfers Author: Pepetela
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1983.
Physical Description: 184p. ; 19cm. Series: African
writers series ; 269 Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/269 Title: Mhudi / Sol T Plaatje
Author: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Contributor: Stephen Gray 1941Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational
[etc.], 1978. Language: English Edition: [1st ed.
reprinted] / edited by Stephen Gray / with an
introduction by Tim Couzens / and woodcuts by Cecil
Skotnes.. Notes: Originally published: Lovedale :
Lovedale Press, 1930. Physical Description: [3],188p. :
ill., 1map ; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 201
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/201 Title: Midaq Alley / Naguib Mahfouz ;
translated from [the] Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick
Author: Najib Mahfuz 1911-2006
Contributor: Trevor Le Gassick
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1975.
Edition: Corrected ed.. Notes: This translation
originally published: Beirut : Khayats, 1966. Translation of 'Zuqāq al-Midaqq'. S.l.: s.n., 194Physical Description: ix,246p. ; 19cm. Series: Arab
authors ; 2 Shelfmark(s): Asia, Pacific & Africa
14573.a.404/2 Title: The minister's daughter Author:
Mwangi Ruheni
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann, 1975.
Physical Description: pp. 186. 19 cm. Series: (African
writers series. no. 156.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/156. Title: Miramar /
Naguib Mahfouz ; translated from Arabic by Fatma
Moussa-Mahmoud ; edited and revised by Maged el
Kommos and John Rodenbeck ; introduction by John
Fowles Author: Najib Mahfuz 1911-2006
Contributor: Fatma Moussa Mahmoud ;
Maged el Kommos ;
John Rodenbeck
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1978.
Language: English Notes: Also published: Cairo :
American University in Cairo Press, 1978. - Translation
and revision of: 'Mı̄rāmār'. s.l. : s.n., 1967. Physical
Description: xv,141p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers
series; 197 Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/197;
Document Supply 80/5785
Title: My Mercedes is bigger than yours / Nkem
Nwankwo Author: Nkem Nwankwo
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1975. Notes: Originally published: London : Deutsch,
1975. Physical Description: [2],171p. ; 19cm. Series:
African writers series ; 173 Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1./173 Title: A naked
needle / Nuruddin Farah Author: Nuruddin Farah 1945Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1976. Physical Description: [8],181p. ; 19cm. Series:
African writers series ; 184 Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/184 Title: Obi Author:
John MUNONYE
Publication Details: Ibadan, London: Heinemann
Educational, 1969. Physical Description: 210 p. 19 cm.
Series: (African writers series. no. 45.) Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/45. Title: One
Man, One Matchet Author: Timothy Mofulorunso
ALUKO
Publication Details: Heinemann Educational Books:
London & Ibadan, 1964. Physical Description: 8º.
Series: [African Writers Series. no. 11.] Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/11.
Title: One man, one wife (2nd ed) Author: Timothy
Mofulorunso ALUKO
Publication Details: Ibadan ; London : Heinemann,
1967. Physical Description: 201 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. no. 30.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/30.
Title: Ordained by the oracle Author: Samuel Asare
KONADU
Publication Details: London, etc. : Heinemann
Educational Books, 1969. Physical Description: 188 p. ;
19 cm. Series: (African writers series. no. 55.)
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/55. Title: Petals of blood / Ngugi Wa
Thiongo Author: Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1938Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1977
Language: English Physical Description: 344p. ; 19cm.
Series: African writers series ; 188
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/188;
Document Supply 77/26980
Title: The real life of Domingos Xavier / Luandino
Vieira ; translated [from the Portuguese] by Michael
Wolfers Author: Jose Luandino Vieira 1935Contributor: Michael Wolfers Publication Details:
London : Heinemann Educational, 1978. Language:
English Uniform Title: A vida verdadeira de Domingos
Xavier English Notes: Translation of: 'A vida
verdadeira de Domingos Xavier'. Lisboa : Ediçóes 70,
1974. Physical Description: [7],84p. ; 19cm. Series:
African writers series ; 202 Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/202 Title: A ride on
the whirlwind : a novel / Sipho Sepamla Author: Sipho
Sepamla
Publication Details: London : Heinemann in association
with Readers International, 1984, c1981. Language:
English Notes: Originally published: Johannesburg : Ad.
Donker, 1981. Physical Description: 244p. ; 20cm.
Series: African Writers Series. no. 268
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/268 General Reference Collection
YK.1986.a.1260 Title: The Second round Author:
Lenrie PETERS
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational
Books, 1966. Language: English Physical Description:
x, 192 p. ; 8º. Series: [African writers series. no. 22.]
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/22. Title: The smell of it, & other stories /
by Sonallah Ibrahim ; translated from the Arabic by
Denys Johnson-Davies Author: Sun Allah Ibrahim
Contributor: Denys Johnson-Davies
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1978. Uniform Title: Tilka al-raihah English Notes:
This translation originally published: 1971. Physical
Description: [8],118p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers
series ; 95; Arab authors ; 10 Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/95 Title: Stories from
Central & Southern Africa / edited and introduced by
Paul A Scanlon Contributor: Paul A Scanlon
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1983.
Language: English Physical Description: xii,207p. ;
19cm. Series: African writers series ; 254; African
writers series ; 254 Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/254 Title: Three solid stones /
Martha Mvungi Author: Martha Mlagala Mvungi
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1975. Language: English Series: African writers series ;
159 Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/159 Title: The tongue of the dumb Author:
Dominic MULAISHO
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1971.
Language: English Physical Description: 249 p. ; 19 cm.
Series: (African writers series; 98.) Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/98. Title: A
woman in her prime Author: Samuel Asare KONADU
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann, 1967.
Physical Description: pp. 108. 18 cm. Series: (African
writers series. no. 40.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/40
Literature - Poetry
Title: 7 South African poets: poems of exile collected
and selected by Cosmo Pieterse Author: Cosmo
PIETERSE
Publication Details: London: Heinemann Educational,
[1971]. Physical Description: xii, 132 p. 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series 64.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/64
Document Supply W72/4226
Title: Another nigger dead: poems Author: Taban Lo
LIYONG
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: 72 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. 116.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/116. Title: Anthology
of Swahili poetry / [compiled by] Ali A Jahadhmy
Contributor: Ali Ahmed Jahadhmy
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1977. Language: English Notes: Parallel Swahili and
English text. 'First published in “Waandishi Wa
Kiafrika” by Heinemann Educational Books (East
Africa) Ltd 1975' - title page verso. Physical
Description: xi,92p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers
series ; 192 Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/192 Title: Beware, soul brother: poems
(Enlarged and revised ed) Author: Chinua Achebe
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: xi, 68 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series; 120.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/120. Title: Black &
white in love: poems Author: Mbella Sonne DIPOKO
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: 72 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series; 107.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/107. Title: The
drummer in our time Author: Albert William KAYPERMENSAH
Publication Details: London, etc. : Heinemann
Educational, 1975. Language: English Physical
Description: 103 p. ; 19 cm. Series: (African writers
series; 157.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/157. Title: The fire people : a
collection of contemporary Black British poets / edited
by Lemn Sissay Contributor: Lemn Sissay 1968Publication Details: Edinburgh : Payback, 1998.
Language: English Physical Description: 168 p. ; 18 cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YD.2008.a.9869
Title: The fisherman's invocation / Gabriel Okara
Author: Gabriel Okara
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1978. Language: English Physical Description: xv,63p. ;
19cm. Series: African writers series ; 183 Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/183 Title:
Frantz Fanon's uneven ribs, with poems, more and more
Author: Taban Lo LIYONG Publication Details: London
: Heinemann Educational, 1971. Physical Description:
148 p. ; 19 cm. Series: (African writers series; 90.)
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/90. Title: Hammer blows / David Mandessi
Diop ; translated and edited by Simon Mpondo and
Frank Jones Author: David Mandessi Diop
Contributor: Simon Mpondo ;
Frank Jones b.1915.
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1975.
Language: English Uniform Title: Coups de pilon
English Notes: This translation originally published:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1973. Translation of: 'Coups de pilon'. Paris : Présence
Africaine, 1956. Physical Description: iii-x,53p. ;
19cm. Series: African writers series ; 174 Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/174 Title:
Messages Poems from Ghana Edited by Kofi Awoonor
& G Adali-Mortty Author: Kofi AWOONOR and
ADALI-MORTTY (Geormbeeyi)
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann, 1970.
Physical Description: pp. ix, 190. 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. no. 42.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.900/9
Title: A New book of African verse / compiled and
edited by John Reed & Clive Wake Contributor: John
Reed 1929-;
Clive Wake
Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1984.
Language: English Edition: Rev. ed.. Physical
Description: xii,116p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers
series ; v.8; African writers series ; v.8 Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1./8 Title:
Prose and poetry / Leopold Sedar Senghor ; selected
and translated by John Reed and Clive Wake Author:
Leopold Sedar Senghor 1906-2001
Contributor: John Reed 1929- ;
Clive Wake
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1976. Language: English Notes: These translations
originally published: London : Oxford University Press,
1965. Physical Description: vii,182p. ; 19cm. Series:
African writers series ; 180 Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/180 Title: Satellites
Author: Lenrie Peters
Publication Details: [S.l.] : Heinemann, 1967 1971
Series: African writers series ; 37 Shelfmark(s):
Document Supply X22/1061
Title: Summer fires : new poetry of Africa : an
anthology of entries from the BBC Arts and Africa
Poetry Award / edited by Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje
& Cosmo Pieterse Contributor: Angus Calder ;
Jack Mapanje ;
Cosmo Pieterse Publication Details: London :
Heinemann, 1983. Language: English Physical
Description: xii,116p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers
series ; 257 Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/257 Title: Walter Rodney, poetic tributes /
with an introduction by Andrew Salkey ; and a foreword
by David Dabydeen Publication Details: London :
Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1985. Language: English Physical
Description: viii,v,101p. ; 22cm. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection YC.1987.a.10204
Literature - Poetry for Children
Title: Singing down the breadfruit / Pauline Stewart ;
illustrated by Duncan Smith Author: Pauline Stewart
Contributor: Duncan Smith 1957-
Publication Details: London : Bodley Head, 1993.
Language: English Physical Description: 76p.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YK.1994.b.3324
Media
Title: Black in the British frame : the black experience
in British film and television / Stephan Bourne Author:
Stephen Bourne 1957 Oct 31- Publication Details:
London : Continuum, 2001. Language: English Physical
Description: xiv, 256 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.2001.a.18450
Mixed Race
Title: Mixed feelings : the complex lives of mixed race
Britons / Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Author: Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown Publication Details: London : Women's
Press, 2001. Language: English Physical Description:
xii, 204 p. ; 24 cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply
m01/36054
Music
Title: The rough guide to hip hop / by Peter Shapiro
Author: Peter Shapiro 1969Publication Details: London : Rough Guides, 2001.
Language: English Physical Description: viii, 330 p. :
ill., ports. ; 15 cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection YK.2001.a.1869
Folk Tales, Myths and Legends
Title: Amadu's bundle: Fulani tales of love and djinns
[Collected by] Malum Amadu; [edited] by Gulla Kell
and translated into English by Ronald Moody Author:
Malum Amadu
Contributor: Gulla Kell;
Ronald MOODY
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1972. Physical Description: viii, 88 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series. 118.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.708/8375. Title: Hare and
hornbill / Okot p'Bitek Author: Okot p'Bitek 1931-1982
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1978. Language: English Physical Description: xv,80p. ;
19cm. Series: African writers series ; 193 Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/193 Title:
Myths & legends of the Congo Author: Jan KNAPPERT
of Heemstede
Publication Details: Nairobi, etc.: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1971. Physical Description: pp.
viii, 218. 19 cm. Series: (African writers series. no.
83.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
012212.e.1/83;
Document Supply X24/6410. Title: Myths & legends of
the Swahili Author: Jan KNAPPERT of Heemstede
Publication Details: London : Heinemann Educational,
1970. Physical Description: xii, 212 p. ; 19 cm. Series:
(African writers series, 75.) Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 012212.e.1/75. Document Supply
72/17219 Title: Not even God is ripe enough Yoruba
stories Author: Bakare GBADAMOSI and BEIER (Ulli)
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann, 1968.
Physical Description: pp. 58. 19 cm. Series: (African
writers series. no. 48.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/48. Title: The way we lived Ibo
customs and stories Author: Rems Nna UMEASIEGBU
Publication Details: London, etc.: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1969. Language: English Physical
Description: pp. x, 139. 19 cm. Series: (African writers
series. no. 61.) Shelfmark(s): General Reference
Collection 012212.e.1/61.
Pan-African Movement
Title: The Pan-African connection : from slavery to
Garvey and beyond / by Tony Martin Author: Tony
Martin 1942Publication Details: Cambridge, Mass. : Majority Press,
1984 1985 [printing] Language: English Notes:
Originally published : United States : s.n., 1983.
Physical Description: xi, 262 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Series:
The new Martin Garvey library ; no.6 Shelfmark(s):
Document Supply 6084.473380 no.6 General Reference
Collection YA.1997.a.13064
Race Relations - Britain
Title: Race relations in Britain since 1945 / Harry
Goulbourne Author: Harry Goulbourne
Publication Details: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1998.
Language: English Physical Description: xii, 189 p. ; 22
cm. Series: Social history in perspective
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 98/30779 General
Reference Collection YC.2001.a.15307 Title: Racial
discrimination in England Based on the PEP report, etc
Author: W W Daniel (William Wentworth), 1938Publication Details: pp. 251. 18. Penguin Books:
Harmondsworth, 1968. Physical Description: 8º. Series:
[Penguin special. no. S257.] Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 12208.a.2/257. Document Supply
W24/7976
Race Relations - United States
Title: Retreat to the ghetto : the end of a dream? /
Thomas L Blair Author: Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair
Publication Details: London : Wildwood House, 1977.
Physical Description: xxiii,263p. ; 21cm. Shelfmark(s):
General Reference Collection X.529/31844 Document
Supply 78/2467
Racism - General and Theoretical
Title: Catching history on the wing : race, culture and
globalisation / A Sivanandan ; foreword by Colin
Prescod Author: Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Publication Details: London : Pluto, 2008. Language:
English Physical Description: xix, 262 p. ; 22 cm.
Series: Get political ; 3 Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection YC.2012.a.7672 Title: Race,
colonialism and the city Author: John Rex
Publication Details: London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1973. Physical Description: pp xx, 310. 23 cm. bibl. pp.
299-304. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
X.529/15768. Document Supply 73/0298
Title: Racism : from slavery to advanced capitalism /
Carter A Wilson Author: Carter Wilson 1941Publication Details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London :
SAGE, c1996. Physical Description: xv,271p. ; 22cm.
Series: SAGE series on race and ethnic relations ; v.17
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.2000.a.1158 Title: Racism, the city and the state /
edited by Malcolm Cross and Michael Keith
Contributor: Malcolm Cross; Michael Keith 1960Publication Details: London : Routledge, 1993.
Language: English Physical Description: viii,234p. ;
24cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.1993.b.1912
Title: A world to win : essays in honour of A
Sivanandan / edited by Colin Prescod and Hazel Waters
Contributor: A Sivanandan (Ambalavaner), 1923- ;
Colin Prescod ; Hazel Waters.
Journal Citation: Race & class, vol. 41, pt.1/2, 1999
Pagination: vi,224p.
Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 7225.883000 vol 41 pt
1/2
Restaurants
Title: Food lovers' London Author: Jenny Linford
Publication Details: Papermac, 1991. Language: English
Physical Description: xiii,296p. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection YK.1992.a.3857
Politics
Title: The communication of politics / Ralph Negrine
Author: Ralph M Negrine
Publication Details: London : SAGE, 1996. Physical
Description: xiii, 192p. : ill. ; 25cm. Shelfmark(s):
Document Supply 97/03998 General Reference
Collection YC.2000.a.324 Title: Immigration and race
in British politics Author: Paul FOOT
Publication Details: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books,
1965. Physical Description: 253 p. ; 8º. Series:
[Penguin Special. no. S245.] Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection 12208.a.2/245. Document Supply
W24/8158 Document Supply X6/7989 Title: A Political
dictionary of black quotations : reflecting the black
man's dreams, hopes, visions / selected edited by Osei
Amoah Contributor: Osei Amoah
Publication Details: London : Oyokoanyinaase House,
1989. Language: English Physical Description: 261p. ;
19cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YC.1989.a.6519
Document Supply 8069.271050
Poverty and Deprivation
Title: Poverty in black and white : deprivation and
ethnic minorities / Kaushika Amin ; with Carey
Oppenheim Author: Kaushika Amin
Contributor: Carey Oppenheim
Child Poverty Action Group (Great Britain);
Runnymede Trust.
Publication Details: London : CPAG ; London :
Runnymede Trust, c1992. Language: English Physical
Description: vi,66p. ; 30cm. Shelfmark(s): General
Reference Collection X.0100/538(83)
Document Supply 83 6571.600000
Science
Title: Science in action Author: Bruno Latour
Publication Details: Harvard University Press, c1987.
Language: English Physical Description: 274p.
Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection
YK.1989.a.4737
Slavery
Title: Abolition! : the struggle to abolish slavery in the
British colonies / Richard S Reddie Author: Richard S
Reddie
Publication Details: Oxford : Lion, 2007. Language:
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ill., maps ; 22 cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference
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Wood
Publication Details: Manchester : Manchester
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About the Author
Thomas L Blair holds degrees in African, Latin
American and Black British Studies with an academic
and professional career in urban sociology and
community planning. He holds AB, MA and PhD
degrees from US universities and a master's degree in
Urban Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of
London. He is a Fellow (FRSA) of the Royal Society
for the Arts.
He has taught urbanism and city planning at the
Polytechnic of Central London, the Martin Centre,
Cambridge University, George Washington University,
the University of Virginia, and the Engineering Institute
of Delft, Netherlands. He served as project development
officer and mentor to Black and Asian members of the
Oxford University Access Scheme.
His relevant books include The Land to Those Who
Work it: Algeria's experiment in workers' management.
Doubleday Anchor Books, New York 1970; The
Poverty of Planning: Crisis in the urban environment.
MacDonald, London 1973; The International Urban
Crisis. Paladin, London 1974; and Retreat to the Ghetto:
The end of a dream? Hill and Wang, New York 1977,
and Wildwood House, London. He has also edited the
successful five volume series Urban Innovation Abroad
for Plenum Press.
Prof Blair’s Chronicle is Britain's first Internet
magazine monitoring African Caribbean British and
Afro-European communities. Founded in November
1997, it delivers authoritative information, book
reviews and ideas to readers.
His 21st century interest in cyberscholarship and online
journalism attracted the attention of the president Oxford
Students Union and an invitation to appear as a featured
speaker. His first E-book in the Editions Blair series,
The Audacity of Cyberspace: The struggle for Internet
power, shows how Black communities in America and
Britain, and Language Groups in sub-Saharan Africa are
taming the new information technologies.
See http://www.thomblair.org.uk and Amazon Kindle at
http://www.amazon.co.uk. Subsequent titles include
Pillars of Change
His work appears in the UK Web Archive of “social,
historic and culturally significant web-based material
from the UK domain” [The UK Web Archive was
originally a collaborative project involving the National
Libraries of Scotland and Wales, TNA, and the
Wellcome as well as the British Library]. See his web
sites Cyberaction for Social Change
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15810.html ; &
Chronicleworld.org Changing Black Britain
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15811.html Editions
Blair
Editions Blair is the book-publishing imprint of the
Internet magazine Chronicle
world http://www.chronicleworld.org. Founded in
1997, we operate from England to share authoritative
information and ideas on Black communities in Britain
and Europe with concerned individuals, students,
professionals, and corporate, educational and
community groups.
Furthermore, the
weblog http://chronicleworld.wordpress.com is widely
known for its fresh approach to race and political,
economic and social affairs. Our personal website
http://www.thomblair.org.uk highlights urbanisation,
social planning and racial integration issues in world
cities.
In addition, The British Library has cited Prof Blair’s
Cyber Social Action and Bridging the Digital Divide
themes for inclusion in the first national archive of web
sites on communities and cultures.
See http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15810.html;
and http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/15811.html
Important information
Origins and Provenance: The Thomas L Blair is
archived at the British Library, Social Welfare Portal
and the Knowledge Portal in association with the Third
Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham.
Time-line and Scope of materials: Emphasis on 20th
century supported by relevant information on Black
cultural and social history.
Condition of materials: From new and unused to well
thumbed
Scope: International by geographic region: Black
communities in Britain and in the Caribbean, USA, Latin
America, and Africa South of the Sahara; and multidisciplinary with writings, photographs and illustrations
by little-known as well as highly celebrated artists,
writers, scholars and personalities. Thanks for your
attention
Prof Thomas L Blair can be contacted at
[email protected]
On Behalf of The Thomas L Blair Collection and his
heirs