"We had a deep responsibility to educate our communities": the Work of Women of Colour on Educational Campaigns in England from 1955 to 1992

“我们对教育我们的社区负有重大责任”：1955 年至 1992 年英国有色人种妇女在教育运动中的工作

• 批准号: 2596868
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2596868
• 关键词: had; deep; responsibility; educate; our

Worldwide protests against racism that took place in the summer of 2020 propelled debates about race to the forefront of public attention. Many of these debates were closely concerned with systems of education, reigniting campaigns like Rhodes Must Fall and growing support for decolonising the curriculum in Britain. These contemporary initiatives should be understood as a continuation of the long history of the Black education movement, in which Black and Brown communities responded to racialized educational agendas with organised activism. Using local and national archives and oral interviews, this research project will explore education activism and reform in post-war England, focusing on woman activists of colour and women's organisations from 1955-1992. The project will centre the work of women of colour to create social and political change in education, and will examine efforts by these women to educate their communities and organise in response to discriminatory practices in education. The following questions will guide the project: What was the political, social, and community role of educational reform organisations founded and led by women of colour?How did educational initiatives led by women of colour collaborate, intersect, or work autonomously within different community and political institutions?What impact did the work of women of colour have on English educational provision and policies?How did the work done by women of colour activists interact with and respond to various Local Education Authority (LEA) and central government policies and vice versa?How did the educational work of women of colour activists influence and contribute to the wider struggle for racial equality and liberation in England in the second half of the twentieth century?This project will create a public-facing digital map of educational campaigns, organisations, and movements led by women of colour. While some material on more well-known campaigns and activists has been consolidated in larger archives like the Black Cultural Archives and the British Library, a significant portion of these histories remains scattered across local archives and has yet to be collected, and other histories are completely missing from the archives and are known only by the organisers themselves. This map will bring forth previously neglected education activists and campaigns that are not yet known beyond their local context in order to accurately represent the work of women of colour all over England.This project's focus on women of colour's educational activism seeks to move beyond the state-centred focus with which the history of Black and Brown educational experiences have usually been told. This project will explore how bottom-up activism led by women sought to change educational provisions and policies in England. This project will expand our understanding of modern British history by examining how race and gender impacted educational campaigns and how activism led by women of colour altered not only English education systems, but also English society itself.

2020年夏天发生的全球反种族主义抗议活动将有关种族的辩论推到了公众关注的前沿。这些辩论中有许多与教育系统密切相关，重新点燃了像罗兹必须下降和越来越多的支持在英国非殖民化课程的运动。这些当代的举措应该被理解为黑人教育运动的悠久历史的延续，在这一运动中，黑人和棕色人种社区以有组织的行动主义回应种族化的教育议程。利用当地和国家档案和口头采访，这个研究项目将探讨教育活动和改革在战后的英格兰，侧重于从1955年至1992年的颜色和妇女组织的妇女活动家。该项目将把有色人种妇女的工作集中在教育领域，以实现社会和政治变革，并将审查这些妇女为教育其社区和组织起来应对教育领域的歧视性做法所做的努力。以下问题将指导该项目：由有色人种妇女创立和领导的教育改革组织在政治、社会和社区中扮演什么角色？由有色人种妇女领导的教育倡议如何在不同的社区和政治机构内合作、交叉或自主工作？有色人种妇女的工作对英国的教育规定和政策有什么影响？有色人种妇女活动家所做的工作是如何与各种地方教育当局（莱亚）和中央政府政策互动和回应的？20世纪后半叶，有色人种妇女活动家的教育工作如何影响和促进了英国更广泛的种族平等和解放斗争？该项目将创建一个面向公众的数字地图，展示有色人种妇女领导的教育活动、组织和运动。虽然一些关于更知名的运动和活动家的材料已经被整合到更大的档案馆，如黑人文化档案馆和大英图书馆，但这些历史的很大一部分仍然分散在当地档案馆中，尚未被收集，其他历史完全从档案中消失，只有组织者自己知道。这张地图将展示出以前被忽视的教育活动家和运动，这些活动和运动在当地背景之外还不为人所知，以便准确地代表全英格兰有色人种妇女的工作。该项目将探讨由妇女领导的自下而上的行动主义如何试图改变英格兰的教育规定和政策。该项目将通过研究种族和性别如何影响教育运动，以及有色人种妇女领导的行动主义如何改变英国教育体系，以及英国社会本身，来扩大我们对现代英国历史的理解。