Invisible presence: The Whitening of the black Community in the historical imagination of British archives

Archivaria

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-61

  Bressey, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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References (47)

1. Kenneth Little, Negroes in Britain: A Study of English Race Relations in English Society (London, 1972).
2. Paul Edwards, "Black Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," in David Dabydeen, ed., The Black Presence in English Literature (Manchester, 1985), pp. 50-67.
3. A.B.C Merriman-Labor, Britons Through Negro Spectacles (London, 1909).
4. See Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television (London and New York, 2001).
5. Hakim Adi, West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (London, 1998).
6. Jeffrey Green, Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901-1914 (London and Portland, 1998).
7. Jeffrey Green, "Some Findings on Britain's Black Working Class, 1900-1914," Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 9, no. 2 (1990), pp. 168-77.
8. Hans Werner Debrunner, Presence and Prestige: Africans in Europe (Basel, 1979).
9. The CASBAH (Caribbean Studies, Black and Asian History) Project, which built on work by the Black and Asian Studies Association Archives Working Party, considered these issues. Working with the Society of Archivists, BASA conducted surveys on sources for Caribbean, and Black and Asian history in Britain. This project has now become part of The National Archives. For more information.
10. see Record Keeping, Summer 2005 (The National Archives) also available online: .
11. For further information about BASA or to contribute "sightings" please contact The Secretary, BASA, "Sightings," c/o Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DS, UK or view the BASA Web site at .
12. Black and Asian Studies Association Newsletter, 30 April 2002, p. 23.
13. Ibid., 25 September 1999, pp. 22-26.
14. Ibid., 27 April 2000, p. 17.
15. Ibid., 31 September 2001, p. 23.
16. Ibid., 27 April 2000, p. 18.
17. Ibid., 26 January 2000, p. 21.
18. For a discussion on the implications of this see Roger Ballard, "Negotiating Race and Ethnicity: Exploring the Implications of the 1991 Census," Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 30, no. 3 (1997), pp. 3-33.
19. Further discussions include Norbet Peabody, "Cents, Sense, Census: Human Inventories in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial India," Society for Comparative Study of Society and History, vol. 43, no. 4 (2001), pp. 819-50.
20. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, "Identity on the Borderline: the Colonial Census, New Ethnicities and the Unmaking of Multiculturalism in Ethnic Violence," Identity, Culture and Politics, vol. 3, no. 2 (2002), pp. 25-50.
21. Melissa Nobles, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford, 2000)
22. Rozina Visram, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London, 2002).
23. For a discussion of some of these issues see Caroline Bressey, "Looking for Blackness: A Researcher's Paradox," Ethics, Place and Environment, vol. 6, no. 3 (October 2003), pp. 215-26.
24. London Metropolitan Archives (hereafter LMA), H12/CH/B/18/1-4.
25. The Times, 5 May 1880, p. 4.
26. The Times, 5 February 1881, p. 11.
27. Kathy Chater, "Black People in Old Bailey Trials, 1722-1812," presentation at the Seminar of Metropolitan History, Institute of History, Senate House, London, November 2003.
28. Sally Swartz, "Lost Lives: Gender, History and Mental Illness in the Cape, 1891-1910," Feminism and Psychology, vol. 9, no. 2 (1999), pp. 152-58.
29. Richard Keller, "Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962," Journal of Social History, vol. 35, no. 2 (2001), pp. 295-326.
30. LMA, ST/M/BG/L/115/3.
31. LMA, H12/CH/B/01/13.
32. LMA, PO/BG/162/10.
33. LMA, PO/BG/162/10.
34. LMA PO/BG/154/04.
35. LMA, PO/BG/154/04.
36. LMA, PO/BG/154/04.
37. LMA, H12/CH/B/01/13.
38. Wellcome Institute Archives (hereafter WI), WMS 5158, Case Book no. 4.
39. Family Record Office, 1891 RG12/150, p. 34.
40. Family Record Office, RG12/1010, p. 17, folio 163.
41. WI, WMS 5158, Case Book 4.
42. Adapted from the Oxford English Dictionary.
43. Jennifer DeVere Broody, Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture (Durham and London, 1998).
44. Anthropological Review, vol. 6 (1868), Appendix.
45. Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History (London, 1992).
46. Anti-Caste, vol. ii, no. 12 (December 1889), p. 2.
47. Transactions of the Aborigines Protection Society, 1896-1900, p. 560.