Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual
and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or
Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West. Yet Britain has its own
robust black intellectual traditions and its own master teachers,
among them C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, Ambalavaner Sivanandan,
Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy. However, while in the USA black public
intellectuals are an embedded, if often embattled, feature of
national life, black British thinkers remain routinely
marginalized. Black British Intellectuals and Education counters
this neglect by exploring histories of race, education and social
justice through the work of black British public intellectuals:
academics, educators and campaigners. The book provides a critical
history of diverse currents in black British intellectual
production, from the eighteenth century, through post-war migration
and into the 'post-multicultural' present, focusing on the
sometimes hidden impacts of black thinkers on education and social
justice. Firstly, it argues that black British thinkers have helped
fundamentally to shape educational policy, practice and philosophy,
particularly in the post-war period. Secondly, it suggests that
education has been one of the key spaces in which the mass
consciousness of being black and British has emerged, and a key
site in which black British intellectual positions have been
defined and differentiated. Chapters explore: * the early
development of black British intellectual life, from the slave
narratives to the anti-colonial movements of the early twentieth
century * how African-Caribbean and Asian communities began to
organize against racial inequalities in schooling in the
post-Windrush era of the 1950s and 60s * how, from out of these
grassroots struggles, black intellectuals and activists of the
1970s, 80s and 90s developed radical critiques of education, youth
and structural racism * the influence of multiculturalism, black
cultural studies and black feminism on education * current
developments in black British educational work, including
'post-racial' approaches, Critical Race Theory and black social
conservatism. Black British Intellectuals and Education will be of
key relevance to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics
engaged in research on race, ethnicity, education, social justice
and cultural studies.
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