Histories That Haunt Us: Exploring Presence and the Black Feminist Archive

本研究将探讨在伦敦的一组黑人历史档案中，存在和缺席的动态与黑人英国妇女的代表性有关。这一焦点的目的不仅是挑战那些将黑人理解为纯粹的抹除和痛苦的作品，而且是对存在的构成进行质疑，并发展一种实践，我们可以将其与强调黑人女性档案代表的人性和存在联系起来。通过探索英国黑人档案，我把这项研究作为一个机会来参与黑人女性的历史存在，把黑人女性在照片、文章、手工艺品和口述历史中表现出来的时刻聚集在一起，探索档案材料中的存在是如何产生的。

This research will explore how dynamics of presence and absence relate to the representation of Black British women in a set of London-based Black history archives. The aim of this focus is not only to challenge bodies of work that understand Blackness as exclusively erasure and suffering, but to interrogate the makings of presence, and develop a practice with which we might connect to the humanity and existence that underlines Black women's archival representation. By exploring Black British archives, I present this research as an opportunity to engage with Black women's historical existence, pulling together moments in which Black women are represented in photographs, articles, artefacts and oral histories, to explore how presence is made in archival material.