Black Victorians / Black Victoriana

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Black Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in our understanding of the lives of blacks in Victorian England. Without that understanding, it remains impossible to assess adequately the state of the black population in Britain today. Using a transatlantic lens, the contributors to this book restore black Victorians to the British national picture. They look not just at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture but also at their lives as they experienced them-as workers, travelers, lecturers, performers, and professionals. Dozens of period photographs bring these stories alive and literally give a face to the individual stories the book tells.The essays taken as a whole also highlight prevailing Victorian attitudes toward race by focusing on the ways in which empire building spawned a "subculture of blackness" consisting of caricature, exhibition, representation, and scientific racism absorbed by society at large. This misrepresentation made it difficult to be both black and British while at the same time it helped to construct British identity as a whole. Covering many topics that detail the life of blacks during this period, Black Victorians/Black Victoriana will be a landmark contribution to the emergent field of black history in England.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-02-06
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813532158

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Acknowledgments viiIntroductionGRETCHEN HOLBROOK GERZINAPART I The Black Victorian Experience in BritainQueen Victoria s Black "Daughter " 11JOAN ANIM-ADDOPablo Fanque, Black Circus Proprietor 20JOHN M. TURNERReexamining the Early Years of SamuelColeridge-Taylor, Composer 39JEFFREY GREENTracing Peoples of African Origin and Descentin Victorian Kent 51DAVID KILLINGRAYPART II Transatlanticism and the Migration ofBlack VictoriansMrs. Seacole s Wonderful Adventures in Many Landsand the Consciousness of Transit 71LlZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT"A Colored Woman in Another Country Pleading forJustice in Her Own ": Ida B. Wells in Great Britain 88NICOLE KING"No Longer Rare Birds in London ": Zulu, Ndebele,Gaza, and Swazi Envoys to England, 1882-1894 110NEIL PARSONSPART III Representations, Conceptualizations, andDiscourses of Back VictoriansThe Representation of Africa in Mid-VictorianChildren s Magazines 145KATHRYN CASTLEThe Blackface Clown 159MICHAEL PICKERINGAnti-Imperial London: The Pan-AfricanConference of 1900 175JONATHAN SCHNEERReconstructing Victorian Racial Discourse: Imagesof Race, the Language of Race Relations, and theContext of Black Resistance 187DOUGLAS LORIMERNotes on the Contributors 209Index 211Illustrations appear between pages 118 and 119.

Using a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery. - Margaret Homans (Yale University) Using a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery. - Margaret Homans (Yale University)