Black Victorians/Black Victoriana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Victorians/Black Victoriana write by Gretchen Gerzina. This book was released on 2003. Black Victorians/Black Victoriana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Black Neo-Victoriana
Black Neo-Victoriana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Neo-Victoriana write by . This book was released on 2021-11-22. Black Neo-Victoriana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.
The Bones of Ruin
The Bones of Ruin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bones of Ruin write by Sarah Raughley. This book was released on 2021-09-07. The Bones of Ruin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--
Dark Victorians
Dark Victorians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Victorians write by Vanessa D. Dickerson. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Dark Victorians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups. From the nineteenth-century black nationalist David Walker, who urged emigrating African Americans to turn to England, to the twentieth-century writer Maya Angelou, who recalls how those she knew in her childhood aspired to Victorian ideas of conduct, black Americans have consistently embraced Victorian England. At a time when scholars of black studies are exploring the relations between diasporic blacks, and postcolonialists are taking imperialism to task, Dickerson considers how Britons negotiated their support of African Americans with the controlling policies they used to govern a growing empire of often dark-skinned peoples, and how philanthropic and abolitionist Victorian discourses influenced black identity, prejudice, and racism in America.
Impossible Purities
Impossible Purities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impossible Purities write by Jennifer DeVere Brody. This book was released on 1998. Impossible Purities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uses work from African-American studies to rethink the status of race in Victorian England.
