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Black history-- white history : Britain's historical programme between Windrush and Wilberforce /

"Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. Black History-White History assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Korte, Barbara (Autor), Pirker, Eva Ulrike (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript, [2011]
Colección:Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen ; Bd. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Between public and popular: approaching a black British history. Discovering a past for the present
  • Historical culture and social communication
  • Popular re/presentation of history and its media
  • Key aims and questions
  • The Bicentenary effect: how the slave trade, slavery and abolition went public. Remembering and forgetting slavery
  • Screening slavery and the slave trade before the Bicentenary
  • Simon Schama's 'Rough Crossing': from popular history book to television history
  • The abolition as costume film: 'Amazing Grace'-black history with a white hero
  • Setting a critical tone: 'In search of William Wilberforce'
  • >Doing an anniversary<: The event culture surrounding 2007
  • The impact of 2007-slavery and the slave trade in British museums
  • Family matters: genealogy as popular (black) history
  • Keeping post-war migration visible: the Windrush story in the twenty-first century. Screening and staging an arrival
  • Family, sport, and period in 'Wondrous Oblivion'
  • Notting Hill in a historical crime serial
  • Migration history as entertainment? trends contemporary British theatre
  • The windrush story as musical
  • Conclusion.