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        Black Victorians / Black Victoriana

        by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

        Contributions by Joan Anim-Addo, John Turner, Jeffrey Green, David Killingray, P. Nicole King, Neil Parsons, Kathryn Castle, Michael Pickering, Jonathan Schneer, Douglas Lorimer and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

        Published by: Rutgers University Press

        Subjects:Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, History: World, Literary Studies

        232 Pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in

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        • 9780813532158
        • Published: February 6, 2003

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        Related Topics:HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / European Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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        Black Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in our understanding of the lives of blacks in Victorian England. Without that understanding, it remains impossible to assess adequately the state of the black population in Britain today. Using a transatlantic lens, the contributors to this book restore black Victorians to the British national picture. They look not just at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture but also at their lives as they experienced them—as workers, travelers, lecturers, performers, and professionals. Dozens of period photographs bring these stories alive and literally give a face to the individual stories the book tells.

        The essays taken as a whole also highlight prevailing Victorian attitudes toward race by focusing on the ways in which empire building spawned a "subculture of blackness" consisting of caricature, exhibition, representation, and scientific racism absorbed by society at large. This misrepresentation made it difficult to be both black and British while at the same time it helped to construct British identity as a whole. Covering many topics that detail the life of blacks during this period, Black Victorians/Black Victoriana will be a landmark contribution to the emergent field of black history in England.

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

        P. NICOLE KING is an associate professor and chair of the department of American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Sombreros and Motorcycles in the Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina’s Tourism Industry.

        KATE S. DRABINSKI is a senior lecturer in gender and women’s studies and director of Women Involved in Learning and Leadership, a feminist activist program, both at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
         
        JOSHUA CLARK DAVIS is an assistant professor of history at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs.
         
         

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

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