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Title

Black history, white history : Britain's historical programme between Windrush and Wilberforce / Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker.

Author

Korte, Barbara, 1957-

Publication

Bielefeld : Transcript, c2011.

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Pirker, Eva Ulrike

Description

284 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. Black History-White History assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums, and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires about the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability, and its representational politics."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen = History in popular cultures ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen Bd. 5.

Alternative Title

Britain's historical programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Between public and popular: approaching a black British history. Discovering a past for the present -- Historical culture and social communication -- Popular re/presentation of history and its media -- Key aims and questions -- The Bicentenary effect: how the slave trade, slavery and abolition went public. Remembering and forgetting slavery -- Screening slavery and the slave trade before the Bicentenary -- Simon Schama's 'Rough Crossing': from popular history book to television history -- The abolition as costume film: 'Amazing Grace'-black history with a white hero -- Setting a critical tone: 'In search of William Wilberforce' -->Doing an anniversary<: The event culture surrounding 2007 -- The impact of 2007-slavery and the slave trade in British museums -- Family matters: genealogy as popular (black) history -- Keeping post-war migration visible: the Windrush story in the twenty-first century. Screening and staging an arrival -- Family, sport, and period in 'Wondrous Oblivion' -- Notting Hill in a historical crime serial -- Migration history as entertainment? trends contemporary British theatre -- The windrush story as musical -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9783837619355 (pbk.)

OCLC

769420562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library