Reclaiming a Lost Past: Black British Women, Visibility and the BBC.

找回失去的过去：英国黑人女性、能见度和 BBC。

• 批准号: AH/X000958/1
• 负责人: Aasiya Lodhi
• 金额: $ 2.47万
• 依托单位: University of Westminster
• 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: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX000958%2F1
• 关键词: Reclaiming; Lost; Past; Black; British

Greater awareness of the diversity of British history has grown in recent years following the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement, captured in BBC series such as David Olusoga's Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC Two, 2016). Yet the role played by Black women in shaping twentieth-century British society, and its relationship to the media, still remains too often hidden or overlooked. Reclaiming a Lost Past challenges this invisibility by encouraging public engagement with two important and contrasting strands related to the Black British female struggle for visible representation in mainstream media and society from the 1960s onwards. The first connects to pioneering Black actresses seen and heard by mass audiences on BBC TV and on BBC Radio; the second to Black feminist activist politics and women's liberation as mediated by the BBC. These strands reveal two very different sides to the BBC's relationship to Black British women in the second half of the twentieth century (and into the twenty-first). Black actresses were amongst the first to embody, through mass media, the new contours of British national identity following mass migration from Britain's former colonies. Indeed, mainstream BBC programming from the 1960s onwards offered a hyper-visibility to those actresses cast in popular shows such as the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (Valerie Murray) or the science fiction show Blake's Seven (Josette Simon). This hyper-visibility broke new ground in terms of showcasing the creative reach of Black British female performers at a time of widespread racism and sexism. But so too did it bring challenges: of being thrust into the spotlight, of bearing a burden of representation and of navigating the territory of being typecast or playing against type in certain roles. Meanwhile for Black British feminists from the 1970s onwards, when the fight against sexism and racism grew rapidly as a political force in the UK, the story was largely one of invisibility. As women's equality took hold, Black feminist voices and faces, and their ideas on women's liberation (shaped by the experiences of racism as much as misogyny), were often left out of mass media programming on female equality, including at the BBC. It was mostly not until decades later, in the 1990s and 2000s, when young Black female BBC producers finally began to bring to air the contribution of pioneering feminists including Stella Dadzie and Gail Lewis. Reclaiming a Lost Past move these stories from the margins of public understandings of the BBC's history to centre stage. This project encourages a range of distinct demographics, particularly Black British women of different generations, to engage with the lesser told 'herstories' of Black feminist activism and of Black actresses in Britain - as told through artefacts from the BBC's archives and through profiles of key trailblazing figures - and to explore some of the complexities of how the BBC dealt with the promotion of race and gender equality. In collaboration with three community-oriented partners - the Young Vic Theatre in London, the podcast Letter to a Black Girl and the Feminist Library in London - the project will both spark and deliver dialogue, discussion and educational outreach across three varying age groups and constituencies. This will be done through curriculum and extra-curricular activities for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 in two South London schools, via podcast makers and audiences comprised of Black British women aged 20s-40s, and an event aimed at dialogue and discussion between feminist activists of all generations, but especially those Black feminists in the 50+ age category. The project will deliver a podcast, a recorded talk and discussion event and educationally-framed creative responses to curated artefacts from the BBC's archives, which will be hosted and promoted via partner organisations' platforms and via the website and social media channels of the BBC.

近年来，随着英国广播公司（BBC）系列节目《黑人的命也是命》（Black Lives Matter）运动的发展势头，人们对英国历史多样性的认识有所提高，如大卫·奥卢索加（David Olusoga）的《黑人与英国人：被遗忘的历史》（Black and British：A Forgotten History，BBC Two，2016）。然而，黑人女性在塑造20世纪英国社会中所扮演的角色及其与媒体的关系仍然经常被隐藏或忽视。《收回失去的过去》通过鼓励公众参与与20世纪60年代以来英国黑人女性在主流媒体和社会中争取可见代表权有关的两个重要和对比鲜明的方面来挑战这种无形性。第一个连接到开创性的黑人女演员看到和听到大众观众在英国广播公司电视台和英国广播公司电台;第二个到黑人女权主义活动家政治和妇女解放作为英国广播公司调解。这些线索揭示了英国广播公司在世纪后半叶（以及进入二十一世纪）与英国黑人妇女关系的两个非常不同的方面。黑人女演员是第一批通过大众媒体体现英国民族身份的新轮廓的人，这些新轮廓是在英国前殖民地的大规模移民之后形成的。事实上，从20世纪60年代开始，BBC的主流节目为那些在情景喜剧《至死不渝》（瓦莱丽·默里饰）或科幻剧《布莱克的七个》（乔塞特·西蒙饰）等热门节目中出演的女演员提供了超高的知名度。在种族主义和性别歧视盛行的时代，这种超高的知名度在展示英国黑人女性表演者的创造力方面开辟了新的天地。但它也带来了挑战：被推到聚光灯下，承担代表的负担，以及在被定型或在某些角色中扮演反类型的角色的领域中航行。与此同时，对于20世纪70年代以来的英国黑人女权主义者来说，当反对性别歧视和种族主义的斗争在英国迅速发展为一股政治力量时，这个故事在很大程度上是一个无形的故事。随着妇女平等的确立，黑人女权主义者的声音和面孔，以及他们对妇女解放的想法（受到种族主义和厌女症的影响），往往被排除在大众媒体关于妇女平等的节目之外，包括在英国广播公司。直到几十年后的20世纪90年代和21世纪初，年轻的黑人女性BBC制片人终于开始将包括斯特拉·达齐和盖尔·刘易斯在内的先驱女权主义者的贡献公诸于世。《追忆似水年华》将这些故事从公众对BBC历史理解的边缘移到了中心舞台。该项目鼓励一系列不同的人口统计数据，特别是不同世代的英国黑人妇女，参与英国黑人女权主义活动和黑人女演员的较少讲述的“她的故事”-通过BBC档案中的文物和关键开拓人物的简介讲述-并探索BBC如何处理促进种族和性别平等的复杂性。该项目与三个面向社区的伙伴-伦敦的青年维克剧院、播客“给黑人女孩的信”和伦敦的女权主义图书馆-合作，将在三个不同年龄组和选区激发和提供对话、讨论和教育宣传。这将是通过课程和课外活动的关键阶段3和关键阶段4在两个南伦敦学校，通过播客制作者和观众组成的黑色英国妇女年龄在20 - 40年代，和一个旨在对话和讨论各代女权主义活动家之间的事件，但特别是那些黑人女权主义者在50岁以上的类别。该项目将提供播客，录制谈话和讨论活动，以及对BBC档案馆中策划的人工制品的教育框架创意回应，这些将通过合作伙伴组织的平台以及BBC的网站和社交媒体渠道进行托管和推广。