Identity, community and the lived experience of black Scots from the late eighteenth to the mid‐nineteenth centuries
| Autor: | Ian Duffield |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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| Zdroj: | Immigrants & Minorities. 11:105-129 |
| ISSN: | 1744-0521 0261-9288 |
| Popis: | The existing literature on Black Scots is little developed, has a certain bias towards a limited number of elite figures and, in common with the literature on Black people in Britain in general, tends to treat the question of their identity as unproblematic, even eternalizing it. This article presents a number of case histories of plebeian Black Scots, male and female, alongside, in particular, Benedict Anderson's concept of national identity as ‘imagined community’, in order to attempt a reconstruction of the styles in which these people imagined their own identities. It is argued that this yields a clearer and more fruitful understanding of the varieties of ways in which such people developed strategies of survival and/or resistance. Most of the social data for the case histories are taken from criminal records; any supposition that to do so is to ‘criminalize’ Black History is rejected. Despite the likelihood that there were comparatively few Black people in Scotland in the period under scrutiny, it is... |
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