Belonging in Europe

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] Evaristo Evaristo, Bernardine. 2008. CSI Europe: African Trace Elements. Fragments. Reconstruction. Case Histories. Motive. Personal. Wasafiri, 23(4): 2–7. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 2008, 6. Evaristo's essay appeared in an issue of Wasafiri, a magazine of contemporary writing, which focused on African Europeans. It includes a number of translated essays and reviews. [2] Van Sertima's Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. 1986. The African Presence in Early Europe, London: Transaction Books. [Google Scholar] edited volume The African Presence in Early Europe is a well-known exception. [3] Blakely Blakely, Allison. 2001. Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [Google Scholar], Dutch World, 2001 (first published 1987). Blakely Blakely, Allison. 1987. Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought, Washington, DC: Howard University Press. [Google Scholar] has also published Russia and the Negro. [4] ‘Black Victorians: Black people in British Art 1800–1900’ curated by Jan Marsh was shown at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery in 2006. ‘Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas’, in Amsterdam, Nieuwe Kerk, 26 July–26 October 2008. A catalogue is available in Dutch and English, Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas, Zwolle. The Netherlands: Waanders Publishers, 2008. The exhibition continues to have a presence through an online research lab available in Dutch and English http://www.blackisbeautifulamsterdam.nl/researchlab [5] For example, see Ndiaye Ndiaye, Pap. 2008. La condition noire: Essai sur une minorité française, Paris: Calmann-Lévy. [Google Scholar], La condition noire on France, Fryer Fryer, Peter. 1984. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, London: Pluto. [Google Scholar], Staying Power on Britain and Oguntoye Oguntoye, Katharina. 1997. Eine afro-deutsche Geschichte: Zur Lebenssituation von Afrikanern und Afro-Deutschen in Deutschland von 1884 bis 1950, Berlin: Hoho Verlag Christine Hoffman. [Google Scholar], Eine afro-deutsche Geschichte on Germany. [6] Details of the Belonging in Britain symposium can be seen on the symposium poster, including an image by Ingrid Pollard http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,1168/?g2_itemId = 1285. Part of the discussion can also been seen on the YouTube site for University College Falmouth. [7] Khalfa Khalfa, Jean. 2008. The Heart of the Black Race’: Parisian Negritudes in the 1920s. Wasafiri, 23(4): 15–24. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 2008, 15. [8] Khalfa, 2008 Khalfa, Jean. 2008. The Heart of the Black Race’: Parisian Negritudes in the 1920s. Wasafiri, 23(4): 15–24. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]. [9] See, for example, Frost Frost, Diane, ed. 1995. Ethnic Labour and British Imperial Trade: A History of Ethnic Seafarers in the UK, London: Routledge. [Google Scholar], 1995; Linebaugh and Rediker, 2000 Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus. 2000. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, London and New York: Verso. [Google Scholar]; Jenkinson Jenkinson, Jacqueline. 2009. Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2009. [10] An exhibition on ‘Bombay Africans 1850–1910’ was held at the Royal Geographical Society, London in 2007. The exhibition maintains an online presence: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/Exhibition/ba01.htm [11] BEST: Black European Studies in Transition established 2004 at Gutenberg University Mainz, http://www.best.uni-mainz.de/modules/Informationen/index.php?id = 13. [12] The establishment of the project ‘Newspapers and Periodicals of the African Diaspora in Europe’ which aims to collect, preserve and digitalise journals from the nineteenth century onwards is a welcome example. Several hundred titles in Italian, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish have already been collected. The project is directed by James P Danky at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.