Grassroots Struggles, Global Visions: British Black Power, 1964-1985

草根斗争，全球视野：英国黑人权力，1964-1985

• 批准号: AH/V006673/1
• 负责人: Kerry Pimblott
• 金额: $ 25.35万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV006673%2F1
• 关键词: Grassroots; Struggles; Global; Visions; British

During the mid- to late 20th century calls for 'Black Power' swept the globe, capturing the hearts and minds of activists engaged in struggles to confront the legacies of colonialism and white supremacy. Conventionally regarded as a U.S. phenomenon, Black Power in fact had considerable global appeal and this project contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the subject by attending to the movement's specific historical development and significance in modern Britain. While much of the nascent literature on British Black Power adopts a metropolitan focus, this project shifts the lens beyond London to three nationally significant but under-examined sites: Greater Manchester in the North West and Nottingham and Leicester in the East Midlands. Specifically it will 1) investigate how considerations of historical place and region informed the distinct character and development of local Black Power struggles; 2) trace the networks of relations that connected these local struggles to each other and their counterparts in the nation's capital and around the globe; and, in turn, 3) assess how these wider circuits of pan-African and anti-colonial solidarity fed-back influencing Black Power activism at the grassroots level. By adopting this novel 'bottom-up' approach and carefully attending to overlooked regional variances in movement mobilisation this project offers a fuller account of British Black Power. In the process, it challenges prevailing interpretations of British Black Power's ideological, temporal and spatial dimensions and as casts new light on how a series of discrete local struggles became an increasingly interconnected national movement with transformative implications for British culture and society.In recovering these histories, this project adopts a community-based research methodology that builds upon the strengths and resources already present within communities engaging people with lived experience as important knowledge-bearers and partners in the research process. Working in tandem with alternative community-based archiving initiatives, the project team will conduct a series of memory workshops and oral histories in which community elders and former movement participants will be invited to share their recollections and insights. Through these collaborative activities academic researchers will learn with and alongside a diverse group of differently-situated participants, each with their own knowledge and expertise. This two-year project will culminate in the development of a suite of research outputs designed to contribute to multiple academic disciplines as well as deliver meaningful reparative justice impacts for non-academic beneficiaries in the archive and heritage sector, education, and community-based advocacy work. In addition to high profile journal articles and conference papers, the project will draw on existing partnerships with local archives, cultural arts practitioners, and community members to co-curate new manuscript and oral history collections. These collections will be deposited with collaborating archives to support future research and public engagement activities as well as provide a foundation for much-needed curricula interventions related to Black British histories. With this aim in mind, the project will build on established relationships with local educationalists and youth advocacy groups to co-produce high quality place-based teaching resources to be disseminated via a project website for delivery in both traditional and supplementary school contexts. Upon completion of the project, the research team will also disseminate major research findings and outputs at a public symposium designed to raise awareness of the vital contributions of activists of African and Asian descent outside London to the (re)making of modern Britain.

在世纪中后期，对“黑人权力”的呼吁席卷了地球仪，抓住了从事斗争的活动家的心灵和思想，以对抗殖民主义和白色霸权的遗产。传统上被视为美国现象，黑人权力实际上具有相当大的全球吸引力，该项目通过参加该运动在现代英国的具体历史发展和意义，为越来越多的关于该主题的学术研究做出了贡献。虽然大多数关于英国黑人权力的新生文献都以大都市为焦点，但这个项目将透镜从伦敦转移到了三个全国性的重要但未被研究的地点：西北部的大曼彻斯特和东米德兰兹郡的诺丁汉和莱斯特。具体来说，它将1）调查如何考虑历史地点和区域通知当地的黑人权力斗争的独特性和发展; 2）跟踪这些地方斗争的关系网络，相互连接，并在国家的首都和地球仪的同行;并且，反过来，3）评估这些泛非和反殖民团结的更广泛的电路如何反馈影响基层的黑人权力行动主义。通过采用这种新颖的“自下而上”的方法，并仔细注意到被忽视的运动动员的区域差异，该项目提供了一个更全面的英国黑人权力的帐户。在这个过程中，它挑战了对英国黑人权力的意识形态、时间和空间维度的普遍解释，并为一系列离散的地方斗争如何成为一场日益相互关联的全国运动提供了新的视角，对英国文化和社会产生了变革性的影响。本项目采用社区-基于社区内现有的优势和资源的研究方法，让人们参与生活经验，研究过程中的知识承载者和合作伙伴。项目团队将与其他基于社区的存档举措合作，举办一系列记忆研讨会和口述历史，邀请社区长者和前运动参与者分享他们的回忆和见解。通过这些合作活动，学术研究人员将与不同位置的参与者一起学习，每个人都有自己的知识和专业知识。这个为期两年的项目将最终在一套研究成果的开发，旨在促进多个学科，以及提供有意义的补偿性司法影响的非学术受益人在档案和遗产部门，教育和社区为基础的宣传工作。除了高调的期刊文章和会议论文，该项目将利用与当地档案馆，文化艺术从业者和社区成员的现有合作伙伴关系，共同策划新的手稿和口述历史收藏。这些藏品将存放在合作档案馆中，以支持未来的研究和公众参与活动，并为与英国黑人历史相关的急需的课程干预提供基础。本着这一目标，该项目将利用与当地教育工作者和青年倡导团体建立的关系，共同制作高质量的地方教学资源，通过项目网站传播，在传统学校和辅助学校中提供。项目完成后，研究小组还将在一次公共研讨会上传播主要的研究结果和产出，以提高人们对伦敦以外的非洲和亚洲裔活动家对现代英国的（重建）作出的重要贡献的认识。