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, anti- racism 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

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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 post- colonial 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 self- worth, group identity and duty is probably best associated with Black Public Intellectuals. They are the voices that accompany epochal struggles, from anti- slavery 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 well- endowed 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 post- colonial 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 world- historical 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/raceineducation.race

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/researchProgrammes2013/mediaAndCommunications.aspx

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 Afro- Caribbean 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 E- libraries. They will be more likely to produce and research the Black Experience through E-content on E- readers, 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 African- Americana 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-history- month/#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-history- month/#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/researchProgrammes2013/mediaAndCommunications.aspx

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 Afro- Caribbean 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-we- do.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/funding- opportunities/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-we- do.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/funding- opportunities/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 much- needed 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, action- oriented 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 home- nation. Emigrant Jews, Irish and Armenians also exhibit this “scattering of the seeds” a term derived from Ancient Greek. Black Britain. Britain’s mainly English- speaking 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/4071/developing- 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 best- known 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, 19- 22 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/page96404.html

Philosophia Africana http://philafricana.iweb.bsu.edu/philafricana_files/Page383.htm

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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 0- 688-03458-8.

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. 0- 939594-18-8

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, 0- 936227-04-0

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. 0- 312-08302-5

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. 0-7043- 2339-7

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 0-8109- 0033-5

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 0- 7148-4123-4

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 Beazley- A 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. 0- 582-78019-5,

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 Ex- library 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 0-933642- 04-0 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 Afro- American 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 1982- 1995. 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. 0-87817- 013-8.

DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Howard University Press, Washington, D.C. 1984. Pp.112. Hard cover. Very good 0-88258- 152-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, ex- library 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, -ex- library 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 978-0- 19-509463-3

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 Self- determination, 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. 0-8039- 5005-5 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, well- used, 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: 1608- 1930, 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 0-13- 077586-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 Chigwada- Bailey

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 1927-

Publication 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 1941-

George 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), 1923-

Contributor: 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 4-

Publication 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 1927-

Publication 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 South- Eastern Nigeria [With a map] Author: Cyril Daryll Forde 1902-

Contributor: 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 1902- Publication 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, 1938-

Contributor: 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: Denoë l, 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 1941-

Publication 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 'Zuqā q al-Midaqq'. S.l.: s.n., 194- Physical 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: 'Mı̄ rā mā r'. 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 1945-

Publication 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, 1938-

Publication 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 1935-

Contributor: 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 : Ediç óes 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 KAYPER- MENSAH

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 1968-

Publication 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 1969-

Publication 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 1942-

Publication 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), 1938-

Publication 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 1941-

Publication 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 1960-

Publication 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: English Physical Description: 254 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection YC.2007.a.9212 Title: Blind memory : visual representations of slavery in England and America, 1780-1865 / Marcus Wood Author: Marcus Wood

Publication Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000. Language: English Physical Description: xxi, 341 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply m01/21749 General Reference Collection YC.2000.a.7684 Title: Capitalism & slavery / Eric Williams ; with a new introduction by Colin A Palmer Author: Eric Eustace Williams 1911-1981

Publication Details: Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, c1994. Language: English Notes: Originally published: 1944. Physical Description: xxii, 285 p. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 95/35615

South Africa Title: And night fell : memoirs of a political prisoner in South Africa / Molefe Pheto Author: Molefe Pheto

Publication Details: London : Heinemann, 1985, c1983. Language: English Notes: Originally published: London : Allison & Busby, 1983. Physical Description: 218p. ; 19cm. Series: African writers series ; 258 Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/258 Title: No easy walk to freedom: articles, speeches and trial addresses of Nelson Mandela Author: Nelson Mandela 1918-

Publication Details: London: Heinemann Educational, 1973. Physical Description: pp. 189; ports. 19 cm. Series: (African writers series; 123) Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection 012212.e.1/123. Title: South Africa: the peasants' revolt Author: Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa MBEKI

Publication Details: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1964. Physical Description: 156 p. ; 8º. Series: [Penguin African Library. no. AP9.] Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection 010058.m.69/9. West Indies

Title: The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution Author: C L R James

Publication Details: [S.l.] : Random Vintage Bks, 1963. Language: English Edition: 2nd ed.rev.. Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 74/21260 Title: C L R James : the artist as revolutionary / Paul Buhle Author: Paul Buhle 1944-

Publication Details: London : Verso, 1988. Language: English Physical Description: 197p. ; 25cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection YH.1989.b.506 Title: The groundings with my brothers, etc Author: Walter Rodney

Publication Details: London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1970. Physical Description: pp. 68. 22 cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection X.709/10382

Document Supply W69/7438. Title: Carnival monograph Publication Details: Kingston, Jamaica : Caribbean Quarterly, 2000. Language: English Notes: Articles originally published in: Caribbean quarterly.

Physical Description: x, 192 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 23 cm. Series: Caribbean quarterly monograph

Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection YA.2003.a.41525 Title: No hardship in being black : the autobiography of Charles Emmanuel Ward / edited by Geoffrey W Bricher Author: Charles Emmanuel Ward 1909-

Contributor: Geoffrey W Bricher

Publication Details: London : Credo Consultants in association with Facto, c1983. Language: English Physical Description: xiii,146p. ; 23cm. Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection X.950/32478

Document Supply 88/02186

Title: A post-emancipation history of the West Indies / Isaac Dookhan Author: Isaac Dookhan Publication Details: San Juan, Trinidad : Longman Caribbean ; Harlow : Longman, 1988. Notes: Originally published: London : Collins, 1975 Shelfmark(s): Document Supply 90/10244 General Reference Collection YC.1988.a.7300 General Reference Collection YK.1989.a.4886 Title: Small islands, large questions : society, culture and resistance in the post- Emancipation Caribbean / edited by Karen Fog Olwig Contributor: Karen Fog Olwig 1948-

Publication Details: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, c1995. Language: English Notes: Papers originally presented at a workshop held in Magleå s, Denmark, in August 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical Description: 200p. : map ; 23cm. Series: Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures

Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection YC.1995.a.4717

Document Supply 96/30808

Title: Warning from the West Indies, etc (With revisions and a new preface) Author: William Miller MACMILLAN

Publication Details: Harmondsworth, 1938. Physical Description: 184 p. ; 8º. Series: [Penguin Special.] Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection 12208.a.2/17. 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 multi- disciplinary 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