The problem of political blackness

Lessons from the Black Supplementary School Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2147151
AutoresK Andrews (0000-0003-0982-3786, ,, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume39
Fascículo11
Páginas2060-2078
Data de publicação2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2015.1131314
OpenAlexW2289079511
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas40

The Black Supplementary School Movement has a fifty-year tradition of resisting racism in Britain. Central to the movement is a construction of African Diasporic Blackness that is marginalized in British scholarship. 'Political blackness', based on the unity ethnic minority groups, is an important frame of reference in Britain. This article will examine the limitations of 'political blackness' in relation to research carried out in the Black Supplementary School Movement that involved interviews with key activists and an archival analysis of documents at the George Padmore Institute. Political blackness is based on an inaccurate understanding of the relationship between multiculturalism and anti-racism; a misreading of the complex and global nature of racism and a non-strategic essentialism. The concept also creates a form non-whiteism, which disempowers ethnic minority communities and works to delegitimize African Diasporic Blackness, which has a tradition of resisting racist oppression. (c) 2016 Taylor & Francis

Anti-racism · Essentialism · Ethnic group · Multiculturalism · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Racism · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Race, History, and American Society