Full Description
This book is a ground-breaking exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice, through a multiplicity of voices and writing styles.
The structure of Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative examines life through a personal study of the family home - room by room, object by object - as a portal through which to examine the intricacies and nuances of daily considerations of African heritage people living in Britain in the modern era (post-1950). Using Small Anthropology methodology, this book foregrounds the experiences of Black British lives by bringing the threads of history and culture into the relevancy of the present day and demonstrates how the personal sphere directly links to wider public and political concerns.
This book will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including Black studies, anthropology, cultural studies, history, visual culture, photography, media communication, sociology, community development, art and design, and by any course that studies ethnographic methodologies, material culture, migration, everyday life, and British society.
Contents
1. Front Door / Hallway signs 2. (Living Room) - Photo Wall 3. (Living Room) - Television 4. (Living Room) - Sewing Machine 5. (Living Room) - Armchair (fiction) 6. (Front Room) - Radiogram 7. (Front Room) - The Last Supper 8. (Front Room) - Souvenirs and Ornaments 9. (Kitchen) - Dutch Pot 10. (Kitchen) - Rice 11. (Bathroom) - Afro-comb 12. (Bathroom) - Sickle Cell Medication 13. (Parent Bedroom) - Suitcase / Grip - Part 1 14. (Teenage Bedroom) - Stuff (photo essay) 15. ('Sent-for child's' Bedroom) - Suitcase / Grip - Part 2 16. (Garden) - Soil (part fiction) 17. - Conclusion
