Thinking Black
Peter Fryer's Staying Power and the Politics of Writing Black British History in the 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Waters (0000-0002-7612-2173, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-120 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbw018 |
| OpenAlex | W2504813170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
Now entering its fourth decade, Peter Fryer's Staying Power: the History of Black People in Britain remains a centrally important text for British historians studying the metropolitan dimensions of race and empire. However, as a milestone in British, black British and radical historiography it is frequently acknowledged but far less often critically engaged. While other foundational texts and figures in radical and left historiography have received growing attention in recent years, and while the epistemologies of their practices have been constantly debated, Fryer's contributions are largely undiscussed and his assumptions about what constitutes black British history unexplored. Narrating the genesis of Fryer's text within a wider black radical formation, this article emphasizes the alternative routes for radical historiography in Britain which constituted black British history as a radical field, and asks where, when and why this field emerged. Through this, the article also proposes that paying attention to how Fryer framed his understanding of black history is important for how we understand the field today. By looking closer at Fryer's text we can see both how different is the field of black British and postcolonial history today, and which questions remain, often unresolved.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Black British · Black Power · Empire · Field (mathematics) · Historiography · Literature · Political history · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Staying power
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
Uplifting the Race
The Empire Strikes Back?
Bonds of Empire
Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Black British Culture and Society
Black People in the British Empire
Gender and the Politics of History
History as a Core Subject Area of African American Studies
At Home and Not at Home
You can't fool the youths … race and class formation in the 1980s
Victorian Afterlife
The Central Theme of Black History
"Lift Up Yr Self!" Reinterpreting Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Power, and the Uplift Tradition
Pan-Africanism and Cosmopolitanism
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life
Birmingham Stories
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism
Forgotten histories
From resistance to rebellion
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |