Black Victorians/Black Victoriana

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Black Victorians/Black Victoriana

edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Rutgers University Press, c2003

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780813532141

内容説明

This is an attempt to correct the historical record. Using a transatlantic lense, the US and British contributors to this book aim to restore black Victorians to the 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, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals. 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 subculture made it difficult to be both black and British, while at the same time it helped to construct British identity as a whole. African American abolitionists in London, blackface minstrelsy and the portrayal of blacks in cartoons and children's magazines and many other topics are covered in this contribution to the emergent field of black history in England.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813532158

内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction GRETCHEN HOLBROOK GERZINA PART I The Black Victorian Experience in Britain Queen Victoria s Black "Daughter " 11 JOAN ANIM-ADDO Pablo Fanque, Black Circus Proprietor 20 JOHN M. TURNER Reexamining the Early Years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Composer 39 JEFFREY GREEN Tracing Peoples of African Origin and Descent in Victorian Kent 51 DAVID KILLINGRAY PART II Transatlanticism and the Migration of Black Victorians Mrs. Seacole s Wonderful Adventures in Many Lands and the Consciousness of Transit 71 LlZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT "A Colored Woman in Another Country Pleading for Justice in Her Own ": Ida B. Wells in Great Britain 88 NICOLE KING "No Longer Rare Birds in London ": Zulu, Ndebele, Gaza, and Swazi Envoys to England, 1882-1894 110 NEIL PARSONS PART III Representations, Conceptualizations, and Discourses of Back Victorians The Representation of Africa in Mid-Victorian Children s Magazines 145 KATHRYN CASTLE The Blackface Clown 159 MICHAEL PICKERING Anti-Imperial London: The Pan-African Conference of 1900 175 JONATHAN SCHNEER Reconstructing Victorian Racial Discourse: Images of Race, the Language of Race Relations, and the Context of Black Resistance 187 DOUGLAS LORIMER Notes on the Contributors 209 Index 211 Illustrations appear between pages 118 and 119.

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