From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community

An autoethnographic account

Bibliographic Data

ID12915567
AuthorsBryan Boyle (0000-0002-9630-7415, University of the West Indies System, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume13
Issue2
Pages177-197
Publication date2020-01-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17528631.2020.1716519
OpenAlexW3000889497
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

Using autoethnography as the research tool, this paper explores the formation and evolution of a Black community identity in the austerity phase of Britain in the 1970s. Focusing on one life, it examines this period of intense social upheaval when Caribbean people in Britain were moving from migrants to settlers. Central to that Diasporic shift were Black women who were beginning to set and direct a Black agenda for collective survival to meet basic common needs and defend the emerging settler communities in areas such as policing, immigration and education. This autoethnography is supported by artefacts evoking the collective voices of the period, and critical contextual descriptions to articulate a community becoming. The paper examines the critiques of the vagaries of memory, the privileging of the subjective, and argues for the use of the kinds of research practices and tools that can increase dialogic engagement to generate social action

Aesthetics · Austerity · Autoethnography · Dialogic · Identity (music · Immigration · Pedagogy · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture

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