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Books 6This Round-Up keeps you updated on major works reflecting the evolving Black urban experience, in all its diversity and commonality. The titles reflect the imagination and creativity of Black writers and artists, philosophers and activists, entrepreneurs and politicians. Current choices for the general and academic reader are drawn from titles about Black Britain and Europe, as well as the USA, Africa, and the Caribbean. Books from South America, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and India will also be cited.
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English Titles Periodicals
Publisher Claudine Boothe puts her mission statement right up front in the BMJ premier issue. The journal aims to be a "monument to those who gave their lives to establish a 'state of Blackness' - a space or place (which no-one owns), where people of progress, high politics and superior intelligence can meet, resolve their differences and move on". Boothe gives her reasons for launching the BMJ. In the early to mid-1980s there was vigorous debate around issues of visual representation in modern British society, prompted by the way mainstream media had misrepresented Blackness by largely portraying 'ethnically different' people as the undesirable 'other part' of British society. Young, second generation Black Britons, African, African-Caribbean and Asian, began challenging images and portraiture of British Blackness and created new images depicting their experiences - images which also influenced mainstream media's literary and audio-visual language. The Black Media Journal continues this tradition through a prestigious, pioneering full-colour magazine which analyses the African, African-Caribbean and Asian contribution to art and culture in Britain. Conceptually the Black Media Journal handles 'Blackness' not as a colour, but as a space of cultural diversity. Its objective is to make 'Blackness' mainstream by raising awareness of the idea that 'Blackness' is consumed by most people regardless of ethnic background, in their daily lives through music, art, culture and artefacts. The Journal probes Black creativity, critiques productions, performances and policies, campaigns for Black writers, artists and media practitioners and also against racial representations and omissions in the mainstream media. Boothe hopes that The Black Media Journal will take its place at the heart of the British and international arts and cultural debate. The Editorial Board includes:
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The author recounts major historical episodes and personalities in this re-appraisal of "British" history. Ramdin is a historian, biographer and novelist. His previous books include Paul Robeson: The Man and His Mission and The Making of the Working Class in Britain.
A World to Win: Essays in Honour of A. Sivanandan from special issue of Race and Class, a journal for Black and Third World Liberation, Volume 41, July-December 1999, Numbers 1./2. Prescod, Colin and Hazel Waters, eds. (1999) Published by the Institute of Race Relations, London. Tel: 0171-837-0041. Tributes on his 75th birthday to a distingushed scholar activist, from the "liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s, who transformed the Institute from serving the policy-makers to serving the policed" from - Wilfred Wood, Herman Ouseley, Basil Davidson, John Pilger, Victoria Brittain and others.
Presents key writings reflecting the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Provides a useful resource for analysis,critique and comment on the Black community's distinctive contribution to modern British cultural life. Owusu is an associate of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge University, and is a writer and film maker.
Charts the contributions made by John La Rose - founder of New Beacon Books, co-founder of the Caribbean Arts Movement, the Caribbean Education and Community Workers Association and the Black Parents Movement through involvement in the Black People's Day of Action 1981, and the International Book Fair. (For further information about John La Rose see The Chronicle archives, and for New Beacon Books see The Chronicle Booksellers page).
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