Textures of Blackness in the Midlands: Excavating Regional Archives of Black Culture and Politics

这个项目旨在解构、破坏和重新定义我们对档案、社区和知识生产的理解，这些都与保存中部地区黑人的声音有关。该项目与斯蒂芬劳伦斯研究中心和Serendipity合作，旨在通过特定记忆地点的某些档案实践，探索黑人公共和私人生活是如何构建、挖掘和保存的。这项研究将包括收集、绘制和分析长期存在的社区人士和年轻人（包括黑人妇女和女孩）的印记，并将通过后殖民主义和“殖民”档案概念的视角分析档案实践。

This project aims to deconstruct, disrupt, and redefine our understanding of archival, community, and knowledge production in relation to the preservation of Black voices in the Midlands. Working with the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and Serendipity, the project aims to make inquiries into how Black public and private lives have been constructed, excavated and preserved through certain kinds of archival practices in particular sites of memory. This research will involve collecting, mapping, and analysing the imprints of both long-standing community persons and young people including Black women and girls, and will entail an analysis of archival practices through the lens of postcolonialism andnotions of the 'colonial' archive.