Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context

历史和当代背景下的黑人女性知识分子

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S006397/1
负责人：
Rebecca Fraser
金额：
$ 3.77万
依托单位：
University of East Anglia
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS006397%2F1
关键词：
Black Female Intellectuals Historical Contemporary

项目摘要

From the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States to the local and national activism over the scandal of the Windrush generation's citizenship in the United Kingdom, the black presence in the transatlantic dialogue is slowly beginning to gain increased visibility. Several black intellectuals have gained increasing prominence in the public arena and have consequently developed a platform for talking, writing, and thinking about black activism and what it means to be a black intellectual in the 21st century. Yet, the concept of the black intellectual - when it has been recognised at all - has historically been gendered as male. Black male intellectuals have often talked for and about black women, subsequently marginalising the significance of the black female intellectual both historically and in the contemporary arena. This network therefore brings together scholars, both early career (including PhD students) and more established academics, working on black female intellectuals in the black Atlantic including Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The key point of the network is to share interdisciplinary understandings of black female intellectuals from both historical and contemporary perspectives thinking through different questions which will be used to frame the workshops.The first workshop will ask, as the central research question and the introductory session, how do we define "black intellectuals" as a concept? Does gender impact on this definition? What is it that the black female intellectual brings to the public debate and what forms are considered credible? The second workshop will consider how geographic and temporal parameters alter the form that understandings of the black female intellectuals take and the ways these differences are articulated. Biracial journalist and author Afua Hirsch has been invited to contribute to this workshop. A third workshop will question how issues of gender and class impact on understandings of black female intellectuals both as a form of activism (doing) and thinking (intellectualism). In particular, it will interrogate the differences between black male and black female intellectuals and explore the ways in which intersectionality functions more broadly within black intellectualism. Black activist and educator, Chardine taylor-Stone will contribute to this workshop.Leading on from this, a fourth workshop will consider the role of social media in shaping the experience of black female intellectuals in the contemporary world owing to the varied and multiple media resources available. Female activists from the Black Lives Matter movement based in the UK and Europe will be invited to share their experiences in addition to contributions from Gal-Dem, an online and print magazine written by women of colour. The workshops will also have a series of public lectures running alongside them located in public venues and pertaining to the individual theme of each workshop with invited speakers from across the interdisciplinary spectrum of the network.The network will apply for follow-on funding to host an international conference on black female intellectuals hosted by the University of East Anglia, bringing together practitioners, academics, and public policy groups namely the Runnymede Trust & the partnership project, History and Policy. The application for follow-on funding will also include a separate seminar event hosted by History and Policy using the project's Runnymede report as its focus and inviting interested policy makers including the Institute of Race Relations and the Black Training and Enterprise group, practitioners such as Chardine Taylor-Stone, journalists from both national and local media including Liv Little (Gal-Dem), Afua Hirsch (Guardian), and members of the network.

从美国的黑人生命运动运动到因温德鲁什一代在英国公民身份的丑闻而对地方和民族行动主义，跨大西洋对话中的黑人存在逐渐开始提高可见度。几位黑人知识分子在公共舞台上越来越重要，因此开发了一个平台，以谈论，写作和思考黑人行动主义以及在21世纪成为黑人知识分子的含义。然而，黑人知识分子的概念 - 完全被认可 - 历史上一直是男性的。黑人男性知识分子经常为黑人妇女进行交谈，随后在历史上和当代舞台上都在边缘化黑人女性知识分子的意义。因此，该网络汇集了学者，包括早期职业（包括博士生）和更具成熟的学者，从事黑人大西洋的黑人女性知识分子，包括非洲，加勒比海，欧洲，欧洲，英国和美国。网络的关键点是从历史和当代观点都通过不同的问题来分享黑人女性知识分子的跨学科理解，这些问题将用于构建研讨会。第一个研讨会将作为中心研究问题和介绍性会议提出，我们如何将“黑人知识分子”定义为一个概念？性别会对这个定义产生影响？黑人女性知识分子带来了公众辩论，哪种形式被认为是可信的？第二个研讨会将考虑地理和时间参数如何改变黑人女性知识分子所理解的形式以及这些差异的表达方式。混血儿记者兼作家Afua Hirsch已被邀请为这次研讨会做出贡献。第三个研讨会将质疑性别和阶级问题如何影响对黑人女性知识分子的理解，既是一种行动主义（做）和思维（知识分子）的形式。特别是，它将询问黑人男性和黑人女性知识分子之间的差异，并探索交叉性在黑人知识分子中更广泛地发挥作用的方式。黑人激进主义者和教育家Chardine Taylor-Stone将为这次研讨会做出贡献。从此开始，第四个研讨会将考虑社交媒体在塑造黑人女性知识分子在当代世界中的体验中的作用，这是由于可用和多种媒体资源。来自英国和欧洲的Black Lives Matter运动的女性活动家将被邀请分享自己的经验，而Gal-Dem的贡献是由有色女性撰写的在线和印刷杂志。该研讨会还将在公共场所与他们一起进行一系列公开演讲，并与每个研讨会的个人主题有关，来自该网络的跨学科范围内的受邀演讲者。该网络将申请随后的资金，向东英吉利大学举办的国际黑人女性知识群体举办国际黑人女性的国际会议，将其派出派对派对群体，将培训者与公众竞争，学院，学院，学院，学院，学院，和学院学院，和学院的学院，以及学术界，竞争。项目，历史和政策。 The application for follow-on funding will also include a separate seminar event hosted by History and Policy using the project's Runnymede report as its focus and inviting interested policy makers including the Institute of Race Relations and the Black Training and Enterprise group, practitioners such as Chardine Taylor-Stone, journalists from both national and local media including Liv Little (Gal-Dem), Afua Hirsch (Guardian), and members of the network.