Description
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the lives of black people in Victorian England. Contributors to the book look at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture of the time and also at their lives as they experienced them - as workers, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals.
Trade ReviewUsing a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery. -- Margaret Homans * Yale University *
Using a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery. -- Margaret Homans * Yale University *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction
GRETCHEN HOLBROOK GERZINA
PART I The Black Victorian Experience in Britain
Queen Victoria s Black "Daughter " 11
JOAN ANIM-ADDO
Pablo Fanque, Black Circus Proprietor 20
JOHN M. TURNER
Reexamining the Early Years of Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, Composer 39
JEFFREY GREEN
Tracing Peoples of African Origin and Descent
in Victorian Kent 51
DAVID KILLINGRAY
PART II Transatlanticism and the Migration of
Black Victorians
Mrs. Seacole s Wonderful Adventures in Many Lands
and the Consciousness of Transit 71
LlZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT
"A Colored Woman in Another Country Pleading for
Justice in Her Own ": Ida B. Wells in Great Britain 88
NICOLE KING
"No Longer Rare Birds in London ": Zulu, Ndebele,
Gaza, and Swazi Envoys to England, 1882-1894 110
NEIL PARSONS
PART III Representations, Conceptualizations, and
Discourses of Back Victorians
The Representation of Africa in Mid-Victorian
Children s Magazines 145
KATHRYN CASTLE
The Blackface Clown 159
MICHAEL PICKERING
Anti-Imperial London: The Pan-African
Conference of 1900 175
JONATHAN SCHNEER
Reconstructing Victorian Racial Discourse: Images
of Race, the Language of Race Relations, and the
Context of Black Resistance 187
DOUGLAS LORIMER
Notes on the Contributors 209
Index 211
Illustrations appear between pages 118 and 119.
