Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative

This book is a ground-breaking exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice, through a multiplicity of voices and writing styles.

Autorentext

Shawn-Naphtali Sobers is Professor of Cultural Interdisciplinary Practice at University of the West of England, Director of the Critical Race and Culture Research Group, and teaches photography. As a visual anthropologist he has carried out many research projects, ranging from legacies of slavery, African presence in Georgian and Victorian Britain, disability and walking, Rastafari language and culture, creative citizenship, and Rastafari and Ethiopian connections with the city of Bath. As a filmmaker and photographer his work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, and has directed and produced documentaries with Firstborn Creatives for BBC1, ITV, and Channel 4.

Inhalt

1. Front Door / Hallway signs 2. (Living Room) Photo Wall 3. (Living Room) Television 4. (Living Room) Sewing Machine 5. (Living Room) Armchair (fiction) 6. (Front Room) Radiogram 7. (Front Room) The Last Supper 8. (Front Room) Souvenirs and Ornaments 9. (Kitchen) Dutch Pot 10. (Kitchen) Rice 11. (Bathroom) Afro-comb 12. (Bathroom) Sickle Cell Medication 13. (Parent Bedroom) Suitcase / Grip Part 1 14. (Teenage Bedroom) Stuff (photo essay) 15. ('Sent-for child's' Bedroom) Suitcase / Grip Part 2 16. (Garden) Soil (part fiction) 17. Conclusion