![]() ![]() ![]() Still, the struggle spurred me to interrogate my own principal field about the black presence in the British past.Īs a social and cultural historian, I began with a predictable set of questions. Not surprisingly, the exploration of communities and cultures of the African diasporas over time and space faced resistance from many quarters. What immediately inspired me to create a course on twentieth-century black Britain was my participation in the creation of the African American Studies Program at UC Irvine. It lacked the usual panoply of graduate seminars, national and international conferences, and book series sponsored by the leading university presses. When I was a newly minted doctor in modern British history in the early 1990s, the subject simply did not exist-at least in terms of the semiotics of prestige in the U.S. ![]() My interest in teaching black Britain took shape through a circuitous route. Teaching Twentieth-Century Black Britain Douglas M. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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