Britons Through Negro Spectacles

Author : ABC Merriman-Labor
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241995280
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britons Through Negro Spectacles written by ABC Merriman-Labor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk about the first City in the British Empire arm in arm with Merriman-Labor, you are sure to see Britons in merriment and at labour, by night and by day, in West and Central London.' In Britons Through Negro Spectacles Merriman-Labor takes us on a joyous, intoxicating tour of London at the turn of the 20th century. Slyly subverting the colonial gaze usually placed on Africa, he introduces us to the citizens, culture and customs of Britain with a mischievous glint in his eye. This incredible work of social commentary feels a century ahead of its time, and provides unique insights into the intersection between empire, race and community at this important moment in history. Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.

Author : A. B. C. MERRIMAN-LABOR
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033106679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BRITONS THROUGH NEGRO SPECTACLES, OR A NEGRO ON BRITONS written by A. B. C. MERRIMAN-LABOR and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. B. C. Merriman-Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britons Through Negro Spectacles written by A. B. C. Merriman-Labor and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. B. C. Merriman-Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britons Through Negro Spectacles, Or, A Negro on Britons; with a Description of London written by A. B. C. Merriman-Labor and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. B. C. Merriman-Labor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331561876
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britons Through Negro Spectacles, Or a Negro on Britons written by A. B. C. Merriman-Labor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Britons Through Negro Spectacles, or a Negro on Britons: With a Description of London (Illustrated) The outline of this book has been presented in the form of entertainment lectures entitled Life and Scenes in Britain, which I delivered to hundreds Of Europeans and thousands of Africans, during my recent tour Of fifteen thousand miles through West, South-west, and Central Africa. The favourable reception given to the lectures has encouraged Ine-to enlarge on, and otherwise to amend them, with a View to this publication. As regards the style of writing used in the following pages, I may say that, for the sake of clearness and simplicity, I have adopted a somewhat diffused phraseology with a bias towards repetition, emphasis, tautology, and conversationalism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Danell Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380769
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An African in Imperial London written by Danell Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed. In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London. An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights.

Author : Robert Burroughs
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802079068
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Students in Imperial Britain written by Robert Burroughs and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book caters for the demand in new black histories by rediscovering several little-known Black people’s experiences in late-Victorian Britain. It centres on The African Institute of Colwyn Bay, or ‘Congo House’, at which almost 90 children and young adults from Africa and its diaspora were enrolled to train as missionaries between 1889 and 1911. Burroughs finds that, though their encounters in Britain were shaped by the racism and paternalism of the late-nineteenth-century civilising mission, the students were not simply the objects of British charity. They were also agents in a culture of evangelical humanitarianism. Some were fully absorbed in the civilising mission, becoming leading missionaries. Others adapted their experiences to new ends, participating in networks of pan-Africanism that questioned race prejudice and colonialism. In their negotiations of the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the empire, the students of Congo House reveal how the global currents of black history shaped the localised cultures of Victorian philanthropy. From racism to pan-Africanism, this study sheds new light on key issues in black British history.

Author : Elizabeth F. Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479812
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Threshold Modernism written by Elizabeth F. Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how changing ideas about gender and race shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature.

Author : Hakim Adi
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 152907262X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Voices on Britain written by Hakim Adi and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Professor Hakim Adi draws on a variety of published works in Black Voices on Britain, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners’ money; and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America. These and other voices offer a fascinating and thought-provoking portrayal of Black experiences in Britain.

Author : Jeffrey Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136318232
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Edwardians written by Jeffrey Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals the presence of black people in all walks of life all over the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era - challenging conventional views on imperialism, racism and British social history. Historians of British society have largely ignored this most visible of minorities, and commentators on racism have been silent on the period.