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

在20世纪中后期，对“黑人权力”的呼声席卷全球，俘获了从事对抗殖民主义和白人至上统治遗留问题的活动家的心和头脑。传统上被认为是美国现象的黑色力量实际上在全球范围内具有相当大的吸引力，这个项目通过关注该运动在现代英国的特定历史发展和意义，促进了越来越多的关于这一主题的学术研究。虽然关于英国黑人权力的许多新兴文学都采用了大都市的焦点，但这个项目将镜头转移到了伦敦以外的三个对全国具有重要意义但没有得到充分审查的地方：西北部的大曼彻斯特，以及东米德兰兹郡的诺丁汉和莱斯特。具体地说，它将1)调查历史地点和地区的考虑如何影响当地黑人权力斗争的鲜明特征和发展；2)追踪将这些地方斗争彼此联系起来的关系网络，以及它们在国家首都和全球各地的同行；以及3)反过来，评估这些更广泛的泛非和反殖民团结回路如何影响基层的黑人权力活动。通过采用这种新颖的“自下而上”的方法，并仔细注意运动动员中被忽视的地区差异，这个项目提供了对英国黑人权力的更全面的描述。在这个过程中，它挑战了对英国黑人权力的意识形态、时间和空间维度的主流解释，并揭示了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性运动，对英国文化和社会产生了变革的影响。在恢复这些历史的过程中，该项目采用了基于社区的研究方法，该方法建立在社区现有的优势和资源的基础上，使具有生活经验的人成为研究过程中重要的知识载体和合作伙伴。项目小组将与其他以社区为基础的存档举措协同工作，举办一系列记忆讲习班和口述历史，邀请社区长老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环境的参与者一起学习，每个人都有自己的知识和专业知识。这一为期两年的项目将最终形成一套研究成果，旨在促进多种学术学科，并在档案和遗产部门、教育和社区宣传工作中为非学术受益者带来有意义的恢复性司法影响。除了备受瞩目的期刊文章和会议论文外，该项目还将利用与当地档案馆、文化艺术从业者和社区成员的现有伙伴关系，共同管理新的手稿和口述历史收藏。这些藏品将存放在合作档案中，以支持未来的研究和公共参与活动，并为急需的与英国黑人历史有关的课程干预提供基础。本着这一目标，该项目将与当地教育家和青年倡导团体建立已建立的关系，共同制作高质量的地方教学资源，通过项目网站传播，在传统学校和补充学校环境中提供。项目完成后，研究小组还将在一个公共研讨会上传播主要研究成果和成果，旨在提高人们对伦敦以外的非洲和亚洲裔活动家对(重新)建立现代英国的重要贡献的认识。

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.