#black british feminism

toblackgirls:

Two Black Girls are proud to present our list of resources related to Black British Feminism and Black British identity/ Black diasporic identity. We use Black here as a term political term used by those of African, Asian, Latin American and those descended from the original inhabitants of Australasia, North America, and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. We hasten to add that the list is by no means exhaustive but we hope that someone out there will find it a useful starting point. Please feel free to reblog and add to the list or even send us an message with anything you think should be added to the list. 

There is a code of some sort: normal text is for books,italics for journal articles andbold for video/audio. Links with an * next to them indicate that the link leads to a pdf download of the text, those without link to Amazon. You will find, however, that many of the titles are offered on google books with a limited preview. 

On Black British identity: 

• Still no black in the union jack, UCL Lunch Time Lecture, Caroline Bressey.
• There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultures of Race and Nation  by Paul Gilroy 
• A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain eds. Siddiq Sayyid, N. Ali and V.S Kalra
• Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain eds. W. James and C. Harris
• Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain, Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies. 
• “Being Mixed Race” at WOW Women of the World 2013. Summary from the southbankcentre soundcloud:

 Broadcaster Reya El-Salahi; entrepreneur & blogger Alae Ismail; Kiran Yoliswa from Styled By Africa and Irish-Nigerian visual sociologist Emma Dabiri discussed the joys and challenges of being a dual heritage woman in modern-day Britain.

• Differences, Diversity and Defrinitation by Aviar Brah*
• Not so much about Black British identity but about race and racism in the UK: Reni Eddo-Lodge initiated a ‘grown up conversation’ on race on Twitter by asking her followers what  they thought was missing in the understanding of race and racism in the UK. The tweets that followed were, as she writes, thoughtful and considered: part one,part two. 

• ‘Mixed race’, ‘mixed origins’ or what?: Generic terminology for the multiple racial/ethnic group population by Peter J. Aspinall *

• CLR James, ‘Black Power its past, today and the way ahead, speech given in 1967*
• Rosalind Eleanor Wild, ‘Black was the colour of our fight’, Black Power in Britain, PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, 1955-1967*

On Black British Feminism: 

• Black British Feminism: A Reader ed. Heidi Safia Mirza*
• Young, Female and Black by Heidi Safia Mirza
• The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, by Beverley Bryan
• Lola Young, What is Black British Feminism? *
  
• ‘Other Kinds of Dreams’: Black Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Transformation by Julia Sudbury
• Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education: a roundtable discussion bySuki Ali, Heidi Mirza, Ann Phoenix & Jessica Ringrose*
• Stella Dadzie discussing Black Feminism Identity. The Black Cultural Archives commissioned an oral history project wherein they interviewed 29 women who were part of the Black British Feminist movement of the 1980s. The project can be found at the archives. 
• Brixton Black Women’s Centre: Organizing on Child Sexual Abuse by Marlene T. Bogle*
• Brixton Black Women’s Group (a history of the Brixton Black Women’s Group by members of the group.)*
• Who Stole All The Black Women From BritainbyEmma Dabiri. 
• The Southall Black Sisters have a range of reportsthat provide insight into the experiences of Black women in the UK. The reports are free to download but please consider making a donation to help the SBS keeping doing the good work that they do if you do download them.  
• The British Library has an online archive of their Sisterhood and Afteroral history project where you can find short oral history interviews discussing women’s liberation. Look through the categories to find interviews related to Black British Feminism such as this one with Mia Morrisdiscussing the campaigns organised by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent. 
• Becoming Visible: Black Lesbian Discussions (1984), a roundtable discussion between Carmen, Gail, Shaila and Pratibha *
• Talking Black: Lesbians of African and Asian Descent Speak Out ed. Valerie Mason-John.
• Challenging Imperial Feminism by Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar (1984)*
  
• Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain by Amrit Wilson 
• Dramas, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain by Amrit Wilson 
• Do you remember Olive Morris? We have linked to this website before it doesn’t hurt to link it again. Do you remember Olive Morris? is an art-based community project that aims to remember the life of Olive Morris a Brixton-based activist who co-founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD), and was part of the British Black Panther Movement. The website is not only a hub for information about Olive Morris, but it is also a hub for information about OWAAD, the Brixton Black Women’s Group and the British Black Panther Movement. 

Bringing this back because, you know, it’s Black History Month.