Marc Matera
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Matera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Matera |
| SIGNATURE | MATERA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization
This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue 'Marking Race'. Drawing on the authors' individual essays and reviewing the wider literatures in the field of race and immigration, imperialism and decolonization, social democracy and the welfare state, and deindustrialization, the essay makes a series of proposals about what an analytical focus on race adds to our understanding of modern British history
The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain
Race relations' became the most common way of conceptualizing the 'integration' of Commonwealth migrants and various obstacles to it in post-war Britain. However, interest in race relations did not centre initially on Afro-Caribbeans and other non-white migrants to metropolitan Britain as is commonly assumed. Before the 1960s, efforts to study and manage them centred primarily on British settler colonies in Africa. This article demonstrates how c…
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History
How might historians narrate Britain's past if we centre imperial racial formation and its contestations? The thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation provided an opportunity for a new generation of scholars to consider the frameworks of race in British history. In 1987, Gilroy challenged Marxist approaches that treated race as secondary to or even a mechanistic expres…
Postimperial Melancholia and Brexit
The lead-up to and the aftermath of the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union have been characterized by particular psychic reactions and affective states: shock, perplexity, anxiety, guilt, paranoia, anger, depression, delusion, and manic elation. The debate over Brexit has played out largely in an affective register. Scholars and journalists in search of explanations have reached for psychological concepts suc…
An Intimate History of Empire
Through a combination of critical memoir and family history, Hazel V. Carby's Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands offers an intimate history of empire-an excavation of close connections across space and time, of empire's presence in the most intimate spaces and relationships, and of the sedimented yet contingent racial logics underlying constructions of Englishness and Britishness. This brief discussion essay considers the book's eccentric…
Decolonization and Diaspora
What sort of text is Stuart Hall’s posthumously published Familiar Stranger? Though the book takes the shape of a memoir, appearing with the subtitle “A Life between Two Islands,” it is one that renounces the form in favor of an exploration of “the connections between a ‘life’ and ‘ideas’” (10). Like the majority of the works that Hall left behind, it is the product of lengthy collaboration. In his epistolary book, Stuart Hall’s Voice, David Scot…
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the stories of many famous historical figures and presenting their quests for personal, professional, and political recognition against the backd…
The Global 1930S: The International Decade
Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar events of th…
Elizabeth Buettner. Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture
Elizabeth Buettner’s Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture chronicles decolonization in the major European empires after World War II and its reverberations in Western Europe. The book includes the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal alongside Britain and France. It encompasses the varied paths to decolonization in the overseas empires, the simultaneous migrations that brought large numbers of ex-colonizers and ex-colonized to …
C. L. R. James, the Revolutionary Left in Imperial Britain, and the Archives of Decolonization
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Introduction: Metropolitan Cultures of Empire and the Long Moment of Decolonization
The application of an empire analytic has revitalized the fields of British, French, and United States history and transformed our understanding of their objects of study. Much of this scholarship focuses on the many ways that empire abroad shaped the development of metropolitan imperial cultures and identities. “Metropolitan Cultures of Empire and the Long Moment of Decolonization” introduces a forum of three essays that chart new approaches to …
The British Suppression of the Women’s War
Following the counting incident in Oloko on November 25 and the initial rising of local women there, the situation appeared to colonial officials to have returned to relative calm. Captain Hill left Oloko on November 29, feeling confident that he had resolved the problem. Quite to the contrary, however, the confrontation at Oloko only confirmed the women’s suspicions regarding the intentions of British officials and their African male representat…
Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds
The Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria have inhabited, for perhaps four thousand years, the territory situated between the Niger and Cross rivers of West Africa, just north and somewhat east of the Niger Delta. For centuries, it appears that they lived self-sufficiently although not in isolation, producing their own food, textiles, and iron goods, and importing only salt and fish from Delta traders and more luxurious items like copper a…
The British View: The Chaotic World of Southeastern Nigeria
Igbo social, political, religious, and economic practices baffled Britons, who saw in the heterarchical nature of their institutions and systems a manifestation of chaos and disorder. Their first instinct was to contrast Igbo ways with those of northern Nigerians, using gendered language to articulate the differences and to express the shortcomings, as Britons saw them, of southeastern Nigeria. Inevitably, Igbo and other southeastern Nigerian peo…
The Ogu Umunwaanyi
In late 1929, a new movement involving tens of thousands of women swept through Owerri and Calabar provinces in southeastern Nigeria. The participants’ grievances stemmed in large part from local warrant chiefs’ abuses of power and women’s declining political and economic position since the advent of the British-imposed native administration. Far more than the Nwaobiala dancers in 1925, their actions targeted the infrastructure and the symbols—ev…
What the Women Wrought
In the wake of the Women’s War, British authorities in Nigeria faced the immediate problem of (re)pacifying the country and finding ways to prevent outbreaks of protests against them in the future. Women continued their demonstrations against British authority throughout 1930 even as patrols of police and soldiers took punitive action, imposed collective fines, seized property, and burned down whole villages, seeking through an extraordinary show…
The Women's War of 1929
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective
The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War 'More Deadly than the Male' What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography
Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain
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The Women's War of 1929
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective
Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History
How might historians narrate Britain's past if we centre imperial racial formation and its contestations? The thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation provided an opportunity for a new generation of scholars to consider the frameworks of race in British history. In 1987, Gilroy challenged Marxist approaches that treated race as secondary to or even a mechanistic expres…
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization
This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue 'Marking Race'. Drawing on the authors' individual essays and reviewing the wider literatures in the field of race and immigration, imperialism and decolonization, social democracy and the welfare state, and deindustrialization, the essay makes a series of proposals about what an analytical focus on race adds to our understanding of modern British history
Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Women's War of 1929
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspective
The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War 'More Deadly than the Male' What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography
The British Suppression of the Women’s War
Following the counting incident in Oloko on November 25 and the initial rising of local women there, the situation appeared to colonial officials to have returned to relative calm. Captain Hill left Oloko on November 29, feeling confident that he had resolved the problem. Quite to the contrary, however, the confrontation at Oloko only confirmed the women’s suspicions regarding the intentions of British officials and their African male representat…
Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds
The Igbo-speaking people of southeastern Nigeria have inhabited, for perhaps four thousand years, the territory situated between the Niger and Cross rivers of West Africa, just north and somewhat east of the Niger Delta. For centuries, it appears that they lived self-sufficiently although not in isolation, producing their own food, textiles, and iron goods, and importing only salt and fish from Delta traders and more luxurious items like copper a…
The British View: The Chaotic World of Southeastern Nigeria
Igbo social, political, religious, and economic practices baffled Britons, who saw in the heterarchical nature of their institutions and systems a manifestation of chaos and disorder. Their first instinct was to contrast Igbo ways with those of northern Nigerians, using gendered language to articulate the differences and to express the shortcomings, as Britons saw them, of southeastern Nigeria. Inevitably, Igbo and other southeastern Nigerian peo…
The Ogu Umunwaanyi
In late 1929, a new movement involving tens of thousands of women swept through Owerri and Calabar provinces in southeastern Nigeria. The participants’ grievances stemmed in large part from local warrant chiefs’ abuses of power and women’s declining political and economic position since the advent of the British-imposed native administration. Far more than the Nwaobiala dancers in 1925, their actions targeted the infrastructure and the symbols—ev…
What the Women Wrought
In the wake of the Women’s War, British authorities in Nigeria faced the immediate problem of (re)pacifying the country and finding ways to prevent outbreaks of protests against them in the future. Women continued their demonstrations against British authority throughout 1930 even as patrols of police and soldiers took punitive action, imposed collective fines, seized property, and burned down whole villages, seeking through an extraordinary show…
C. L. R. James, the Revolutionary Left in Imperial Britain, and the Archives of Decolonization
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Introduction: Metropolitan Cultures of Empire and the Long Moment of Decolonization
The application of an empire analytic has revitalized the fields of British, French, and United States history and transformed our understanding of their objects of study. Much of this scholarship focuses on the many ways that empire abroad shaped the development of metropolitan imperial cultures and identities. “Metropolitan Cultures of Empire and the Long Moment of Decolonization” introduces a forum of three essays that chart new approaches to …
The Global 1930S: The International Decade
Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar events of th…
Elizabeth Buettner. Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture
Elizabeth Buettner’s Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture chronicles decolonization in the major European empires after World War II and its reverberations in Western Europe. The book includes the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal alongside Britain and France. It encompasses the varied paths to decolonization in the overseas empires, the simultaneous migrations that brought large numbers of ex-colonizers and ex-colonized to …
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the stories of many famous historical figures and presenting their quests for personal, professional, and political recognition against the backd…
Decolonization and Diaspora
What sort of text is Stuart Hall’s posthumously published Familiar Stranger? Though the book takes the shape of a memoir, appearing with the subtitle “A Life between Two Islands,” it is one that renounces the form in favor of an exploration of “the connections between a ‘life’ and ‘ideas’” (10). Like the majority of the works that Hall left behind, it is the product of lengthy collaboration. In his epistolary book, Stuart Hall’s Voice, David Scot…
Postimperial Melancholia and Brexit
The lead-up to and the aftermath of the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union have been characterized by particular psychic reactions and affective states: shock, perplexity, anxiety, guilt, paranoia, anger, depression, delusion, and manic elation. The debate over Brexit has played out largely in an affective register. Scholars and journalists in search of explanations have reached for psychological concepts suc…
An Intimate History of Empire
Through a combination of critical memoir and family history, Hazel V. Carby's Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands offers an intimate history of empire-an excavation of close connections across space and time, of empire's presence in the most intimate spaces and relationships, and of the sedimented yet contingent racial logics underlying constructions of Englishness and Britishness. This brief discussion essay considers the book's eccentric…
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization
This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue 'Marking Race'. Drawing on the authors' individual essays and reviewing the wider literatures in the field of race and immigration, imperialism and decolonization, social democracy and the welfare state, and deindustrialization, the essay makes a series of proposals about what an analytical focus on race adds to our understanding of modern British history
The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain
Race relations' became the most common way of conceptualizing the 'integration' of Commonwealth migrants and various obstacles to it in post-war Britain. However, interest in race relations did not centre initially on Afro-Caribbeans and other non-white migrants to metropolitan Britain as is commonly assumed. Before the 1960s, efforts to study and manage them centred primarily on British settler colonies in Africa. This article demonstrates how c…
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History
How might historians narrate Britain's past if we centre imperial racial formation and its contestations? The thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation provided an opportunity for a new generation of scholars to consider the frameworks of race in British history. In 1987, Gilroy challenged Marxist approaches that treated race as secondary to or even a mechanistic expres…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (12 works) · Law (10 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Colonialism (7 works)