"Blackness In Britain | Sociology

Black Studies is a hugely important and yet undervalued academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain. There is a long and rich history of research on Blackness and Black populations in Britain. However Blackness in Britain has too often been framed through the lens of racialised deficits constructed as both marginal and pathological. Blackness in Britain attends to and grapples with the absence of Black Studies in Britain and the parallel crisis of Black marginality in British society. It begins to map the field of Black Studies scholarship from a British context by collating new and established voices from scholars writing about Blackness in Britain. Split into five parts it examines:Black studies and the challenge of the Black British intellectual; Revolution resistance and state violence;Blackness and belonging; exclusion and inequality in education;experiences of Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain. This interdisciplinary collection represents a landmark in building Black Studies in British academia presenting key debates about Black experiences in relation to Britain Black Europe and the wider Black diaspora. With contributions from across various disciplines including sociology human geography medical sociology cultural studies education studies post-colonial English literature history and criminology the book will be essential reading for scholars and students of the multi- and inter-disciplinary area of Black Studies.|Blackness in Britain | Sociology