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Devolving Black British
Author(s) -
Procter James
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00042.x
Subject(s) - devolution (biology) , black british , period (music) , key (lock) , conjunction (astronomy) , history , sociology , gender studies , art , archaeology , aesthetics , computer science , astronomy , physics , computer security , human evolution
This paper was part of a talk given to A‐level students at Hammersmith and Fulham College, London in conjunction with the Black History Month of October 2003. The talk aimed to introduce students to a handful of key black and British Asian writers, texts and films across the postwar period using the notion of ‘devolution’. Spiralling outwards through three key symbolic locations – central London, the inner city and the suburbs – it hints at how imagined communities like ‘black’, ‘British’ and ‘black British’ have both evolved and devolved over the past fifty years.