Strained Solidarities: Black Power and the British Left, 1960-80

这项研究考察了20世纪60年代至70年代英国的黑人权力运动，以及它如何与更广泛的激进左翼互动，重点是中部地区。这项研究调查了英国黑人权力与传统社会主义政治相交的两个未被探索的方面：它在战后工业好战分子复兴中的作用，以及在反对国民阵线的反法西斯运动中的作用。该博士通过绘制黑人激进分子对国家镇压、工作场所剥削和右翼极端主义等种族主义问题的反应图，取代了对英国议会外左翼的普遍描述的“方法论白化”(Bhambra，2017)。质疑黑人权力集团和既得利益的白人左翼之间的紧张关系，将突出新殖民主义世界中对立的解放愿景，使维迪(2014年)的有影响力的论点复杂化。S(2014年)有影响力的论点是，20世纪70年代见证了基于阶级的斗争和反种族主义斗争的新颖融合。虽然英国黑人权力通常被认为主要是美国输入的，但这项研究考察了这场运动是如何受到帝国大都市内发展起来的独特反殖民主义模式的影响。这位博士突出展示了战后英国的黑人激进分子如何通过复兴克劳迪娅·琼斯和沙普尔吉·萨克拉瓦拉等早期大都市反帝国主义者(如克劳迪娅·琼斯和沙普尔吉·萨克拉特瓦拉)来挑战左翼主流的欧洲中心主义。特别是在中部地区，黑人权力组织包含了许多南亚积极分子，这项研究的地区重点将有助于理解作为移民激进分子中广泛联盟身份的“政治黑人”。与政治黑人的扁平化文本阅读(Modood，1994)不同，博士从下面恢复了政治黑人的动态历史，作为一种反叛的反种族主义。博士包含了对中部地区团体的新研究，包括黑人人民自由运动和伯明翰黑人姐妹会。使用的书面来源将包括黑人激进期刊、工会档案和极左翼团体制作的星辰。这些资料保存在当地档案馆，包括西万丹收藏馆、现代记录中心、沃尔夫森档案研究中心和吉百利研究图书馆。伦敦种族关系和黑人文化档案馆保存的文件将有助于地区比较。由于许多参与英国黑人权力运动的积极分子仍然健在，主要书面文件的使用将得到口头采访的补充。这项研究的意义显然超出了学术界，特别是在跨国黑人生活运动的背景下。博士对白人主导的社会运动中黑人政治战略的调查，尤其引起种族关系研究所和Runnymede Trust等注重种族正义的智库以及解决工会内部种族主义问题的政策辩论的兴趣(阿什，2019年)。

This study examines the Black Power movement in Britain during the 1960s-70s and how it interacted with the wider radical left, with a regional focus on the Midlands area. The study investigates two unexplored aspects of British Black Power, where it intersected with 'traditional' socialist politics: its role in the post-war resurgence of industrial militancy, and in the anti-fascist movement against the National Front. The PhD dislodges the 'methodological whiteness' (Bhambra, 2017) of prevailing accounts of the extra-parliamentary left in Britain, by charting the responses of Black radicals to racialised issues of state repression, workplace exploitation and right-wing extremism. Interrogating the tensions between Black Power groups and the established 'white' left will highlight antagonistic visions of liberation in a neocolonial world, complicating Virdee (2014)'s influential thesis that the 1970s witnessed a novel convergence of class-based and anti-racist struggles.While British Black Power is often assumed to be a primarily American import, the study examines how the movement was shaped by distinctive patterns of anti-colonialism developed within the imperial metropole. The PhD foregrounds how Black radicals in post-war Britain challenged the Eurocentrism of the left-wing mainstream, by reviving the 'subaltern cosmopolitanism' (Featherstone, 2012) of earlier metropolitan anti-imperialists like Claudia Jones and Shapurji Saklatvala. In the Midlands area particularly, Black Power organisations contained many South Asian activists, and the regional focus of the study will contribute to an understanding of 'political Blackness' as an expansive coalitional identity among immigrant radicals. In contrast to flattened textual readings of political Blackness (Modood, 1994), the PhD recovers the dynamic history of political Blackness as an insurgent counter-racialisation from below.The PhD encompasses new research into Midlands-based groups including the Black People's Freedom Movement and the Birmingham Black Sisters. The written sources used will include Black radical periodicals, trade union archives and ephemera produced by far-left groups. These materials are found in local archives including the Sivanandan Collection, Modern Records Centre, Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, and Cadbury Research Library. Documents held in the London-based Institute of Race Relations and Black Cultural Archives will facilitate regional comparisons. As many activists involved in the British Black Power movement are still alive, use of primary written documents will be supplemented by oral interviews.The study has clear significance beyond academia, particularly in light of the transnational Movement for Black Lives. The PhD's investigation of Black political strategies within white-dominated social movements is notably of interest to racial justice-oriented think tanks such as the Institute of Race Relations and Runnymede Trust, as well as policy debates addressing racism within trade unions (Ashe, 2019).