Saima Nasar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saima Nasar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saima |
| FAMILY NAME | Nasar |
| SIGNATURE | NASAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5248-2385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”
This article examines how efforts to improve maternal and perinatal health among Britain’s South Asian population served to uphold medical hierarchies and construct post-imperial racial formations. It uses the “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” (AMBC) to assess state responses to health inequity. The AMBC was set up in 1984 by the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) in conjunction with the Save the Children Fund (SCF). By using the Depa…
Rob Waters. Colonized by Humanity
In Enoch Powell’s often quoted 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, the Conservative Party politician warned against the dangers of rising immigration from Britain’s former colonies. Powell claimed that there was “a ludicrous and dangerous misconception” that the “great and growing majority of immigrants” demonstrated a desire to integrate within the British nation. Powell’s speech no doubt whipped up racial antagonism, but he was far from the first Br…
Black lives and the ‘archival pulse’
16-year-old Neil ‘Tommy’ Marsh was murdered in the Birmingham Pub Bombings. A recent immigrant from Jamaica, Tommy came to Britain to join his family in Handsworth. Now he is the only 1 of the 21 pub bombing victims for whom there is not a single photograph. When pictures of the other victims are displayed, Tommy is represented by a silhouette, or by an image of his mother in mourning at his grave.The absence of material to document Tommy Marsh’s…
Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom
Unpicking Britishness on a global stage: a review of Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom
Decolonizing Britain
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Remembering Edward Colston
On 7 June 2020, footage of Edward Colston’s statue being taken down in Bristol, UK, made international headlines. The statue of the seventeenth century slave trader was first toppled by anti-racist and social justice protestors. It was then rolled down to the city’s harbour where ships carrying enslaved people once moored and from there it was, almost poetically, thrown into the water just south of Pero’s Bridge, which is named after the formerly…
We Refugees
Thousands of East African Asians were confronted with mass displacement during the 1960s and 1970s. Patterns of Ugandan Asian deracination could be traced, and indeed were mirrored elsewhere in the region. Faced with social, ethno-political and economic persecution, South Asians were also excluded from the new nation states of Kenya and Tanzania. Altogether, approximately 103,500 East Africa Asians relocated to Britain during this period. East Af…
Contagious Communities
Recent media coverage of Max Moseley’s involvement in the 1961 by-election in Moss Side reveals the ways in which alarmist and overtly racist campaigns were directed towards non-White migrants in postwar Britain. Leaflets that were allegedly circulated at the time proclaimed, ‘Protect your health. There is no medical check on immigration. Tuberculosis, VD and other terrible diseases like leprosy are on the increase. Coloured immigration threatens…
The white essential subject
This article focuses on the history of Irish migrants in Birmingham in an attempt to enhance historical understanding of race, ethnicity and ‘whiteness’ in post-war Britain. To do so, it will look at two Birmingham histories: the Young Christian Workers’ Association’s report on the Welfare of Irish migrants in 1951, and anti-Irish violence in the aftermath of the Birmingham Pub Bombings of 1974. It will consider the extent to which Irish immigran…
The Indian Voice
This article examines a previously overlooked publication titled The Indian Voice of British East Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar . Printed in Nairobi between 1911 and 1913, the Indian Voice has been dismissed by some scholars as “insignificant” in the wider context of Kenya’s militant press. As an important tool for discovering, exploring and analyzing the nature of racial hierarchies, diasporic identity and belonging, this article argues that the I…
The adaptability of white privilege in Mississippi
The adaptability of white privilege in Mississippi Jenny Irons, Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press 2010. xx + 260pp
Remembering Edward Colston
On 7 June 2020, footage of Edward Colston’s statue being taken down in Bristol, UK, made international headlines. The statue of the seventeenth century slave trader was first toppled by anti-racist and social justice protestors. It was then rolled down to the city’s harbour where ships carrying enslaved people once moored and from there it was, almost poetically, thrown into the water just south of Pero’s Bridge, which is named after the formerly…
The white essential subject
This article focuses on the history of Irish migrants in Birmingham in an attempt to enhance historical understanding of race, ethnicity and ‘whiteness’ in post-war Britain. To do so, it will look at two Birmingham histories: the Young Christian Workers’ Association’s report on the Welfare of Irish migrants in 1951, and anti-Irish violence in the aftermath of the Birmingham Pub Bombings of 1974. It will consider the extent to which Irish immigran…
The Indian Voice
This article examines a previously overlooked publication titled The Indian Voice of British East Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar . Printed in Nairobi between 1911 and 1913, the Indian Voice has been dismissed by some scholars as “insignificant” in the wider context of Kenya’s militant press. As an important tool for discovering, exploring and analyzing the nature of racial hierarchies, diasporic identity and belonging, this article argues that the I…
Black lives and the ‘archival pulse’
16-year-old Neil ‘Tommy’ Marsh was murdered in the Birmingham Pub Bombings. A recent immigrant from Jamaica, Tommy came to Britain to join his family in Handsworth. Now he is the only 1 of the 21 pub bombing victims for whom there is not a single photograph. When pictures of the other victims are displayed, Tommy is represented by a silhouette, or by an image of his mother in mourning at his grave.The absence of material to document Tommy Marsh’s…
Decolonizing Britain
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
The adaptability of white privilege in Mississippi
The adaptability of white privilege in Mississippi Jenny Irons, Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press 2010. xx + 260pp
The Indian Voice
This article examines a previously overlooked publication titled The Indian Voice of British East Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar . Printed in Nairobi between 1911 and 1913, the Indian Voice has been dismissed by some scholars as “insignificant” in the wider context of Kenya’s militant press. As an important tool for discovering, exploring and analyzing the nature of racial hierarchies, diasporic identity and belonging, this article argues that the I…
We Refugees
Thousands of East African Asians were confronted with mass displacement during the 1960s and 1970s. Patterns of Ugandan Asian deracination could be traced, and indeed were mirrored elsewhere in the region. Faced with social, ethno-political and economic persecution, South Asians were also excluded from the new nation states of Kenya and Tanzania. Altogether, approximately 103,500 East Africa Asians relocated to Britain during this period. East Af…
Contagious Communities
Recent media coverage of Max Moseley’s involvement in the 1961 by-election in Moss Side reveals the ways in which alarmist and overtly racist campaigns were directed towards non-White migrants in postwar Britain. Leaflets that were allegedly circulated at the time proclaimed, ‘Protect your health. There is no medical check on immigration. Tuberculosis, VD and other terrible diseases like leprosy are on the increase. Coloured immigration threatens…
The white essential subject
This article focuses on the history of Irish migrants in Birmingham in an attempt to enhance historical understanding of race, ethnicity and ‘whiteness’ in post-war Britain. To do so, it will look at two Birmingham histories: the Young Christian Workers’ Association’s report on the Welfare of Irish migrants in 1951, and anti-Irish violence in the aftermath of the Birmingham Pub Bombings of 1974. It will consider the extent to which Irish immigran…
Remembering Edward Colston
On 7 June 2020, footage of Edward Colston’s statue being taken down in Bristol, UK, made international headlines. The statue of the seventeenth century slave trader was first toppled by anti-racist and social justice protestors. It was then rolled down to the city’s harbour where ships carrying enslaved people once moored and from there it was, almost poetically, thrown into the water just south of Pero’s Bridge, which is named after the formerly…
Decolonizing Britain
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Black lives and the ‘archival pulse’
16-year-old Neil ‘Tommy’ Marsh was murdered in the Birmingham Pub Bombings. A recent immigrant from Jamaica, Tommy came to Britain to join his family in Handsworth. Now he is the only 1 of the 21 pub bombing victims for whom there is not a single photograph. When pictures of the other victims are displayed, Tommy is represented by a silhouette, or by an image of his mother in mourning at his grave.The absence of material to document Tommy Marsh’s…
Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom
Unpicking Britishness on a global stage: a review of Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom
Rob Waters. Colonized by Humanity
In Enoch Powell’s often quoted 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, the Conservative Party politician warned against the dangers of rising immigration from Britain’s former colonies. Powell claimed that there was “a ludicrous and dangerous misconception” that the “great and growing majority of immigrants” demonstrated a desire to integrate within the British nation. Powell’s speech no doubt whipped up racial antagonism, but he was far from the first Br…
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”
This article examines how efforts to improve maternal and perinatal health among Britain’s South Asian population served to uphold medical hierarchies and construct post-imperial racial formations. It uses the “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” (AMBC) to assess state responses to health inequity. The AMBC was set up in 1984 by the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) in conjunction with the Save the Children Fund (SCF). By using the Depa…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Australian History and Society (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works)