Edited by Hakim Adi, a pioneering scholar in this field, the book serves as a marker of the progress that has been made to date. 1 Just one sign of this is a series of regular conferences over the past seven years that has asked “What’s Happening in Black British History?” Another is that various history departments are now finally beginning to recruit lecturers in “black British history”.īlack British History: New Perspectives is a collection that emerged out of a conference organised in 2017. Likewise, the more recent wave of global protests inspired by Black Lives Matter-and student campaigns such as #whyismycurriculumwhite, Rhodes Must Fall and “decolonising the curriculum”-have led to both “black studies” and “black British history” finally winning a degree of academic legitimacy in British universities. The emergence of “black studies” within the American academy in the 1970s was one of the products of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, Peter Fryer (Pluto, 2018 ), £16.99 A review of Black British History: New Perspectives, Hakim Adi (ed) (Zed, 2020), £18.99īlack People in the British Empire, Peter Fryer (Pluto, 2021 ), £14.99
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