Event overview
'Encounters with black feminism and the archive' with Nydia A Swaby, SOAS
Black feminism in Britain has its roots in struggles and activism of women of African and Asian descent. This paper examines the creation and curation of a black British feminist narrative in the archive, while engaging ethnography as a black feminist archival practice. Drawing on collections-based research at The British Library and Black Cultural Archives, I analyze how each repository documents the emergence of the black women’s movement and preserves this legacy for future generations. Black feminism emerges in the archive as specifically diasporic, developing from the social and psychic effects of enslavement, colonialism, migration, and settlement, and evolving in dialogue with the dominant discourses of race, gender, and nation. This leads me to argue that material functions as a ‘living archive of diaspora’ that enables me to link the black feminist past with the ethnographic present.
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Feb 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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