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The Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA; till October 1997 ASCACHIB) was formed in 1991. The aim of the Association is to foster research and to disseminate information on the history of Black peoples in Britain. We publish a Newsletter three times a year in July, November and March, and hold annual conferences. We take up issues with government departments and quangoes, such as English Heritage re-Blue Plaques and much else, with the QCA on school curricula, and MLA regarding archives, libraries and museums. We have also worked on specific projects with other organisations. e.g. in the past with CASBAH, and the National Archives' website on the history of Black peoples in Britain since the mid 16th century.
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Saturday 23 January 2010, 10am-5pm Wilkins Garden Room, University College London, Gower St, London, WC1
Lead Speaker: Jacqueline Jenkinson,(Department of History, University of Stirling and author of Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool University Press)
Other contributing participants: Hakim Adi & Fabian Tompsett – The British 1919 Race Riots in a Global Context
Saturday 20 February 2010 @ 2pm
Wilkins Old Refectory, University College London Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT (nearest Tube: Euston Square or Warren Street)South Asian forms of ‘unfree’ labour remain vastly under-represented in a historiography of slavery that focuses overwhelmingly on the African and trans-Atlantic trades. Recent research is, however, beginning to elucidate the complex commercial networks in the Indian Ocean littoral through which human cargo, in the form of African and Indian slaves, convicts and indentured servants, were moved around the region. Studies have uncovered the complex relationships between caste, class, kinship, indenture, debt bondage and slavery within India itself, blurring the boundaries previously constructed by nineteenth-century discourses of ‘free’ and ‘unfree’ labour. Andrea Major is Lecturer in World Wide History at Leeds University, and the author of Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati, 1500-1830 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006). Her research interests also relate to the nature of the colonial encounter between Britain and India, and in particular their interaction on social and gender issues. She is currently working on a project about Slavery and the Raj: Abolition and ‘Unfree’ Labour in India. The lecture will be followed by questions & discussion, and then an opportunity for social networking.
To book for the lecture please email Sean Creighton (BASA)There will be charge of £3 (includes tea/coffee/biscuits) payable at the door
Current issues... Dan Lyndon and Martin Sherwood are jointly convening an Education Working Party reviewing new challenges to the inclusion of the UK Black and Asian presence in education curricula Selma El-Rayah, with support of her employer Wandsworth Council, is piloting a survey into the way in which London local authority libraries access and display relevant resources Discussions are under way on surveying the impact on the work of museums, archives and libraries started by BASA's 1999 Ethnic Minorities Archives Conference and the Working Party set up after it.ICS/BASA Black & Asian Britian Seminars...
January 21, room G37 Phil Vasili, Walter Tull: Britain’s first Black war hero? Professional footballer Walter Tull enlisted in 1914. Military regulations forbade Black infantry officers in the British Army but he died a Second Lieutenant during the German spring offensive of 1918 after leading White troops into battle and being recommended for a Military Cross. So why wont the MoD posthumously award his medal?
24 February, room G35 Carl Hylton, Positive African self-identity and the 2007 bi-centenary yearThe seminar focuses on some of the psychological, philosophical, cultural and sociological issues that enable people of African descent to survive in a positive manner in the United Kingdom and the wider western diaspora. Arguments are illustrated by reference to the development of a 2007 bi-centenary African-centric community project based in Leeds.
24 March, room G35 Kathy Chater, Who was "Black" in 18th century England?This paper examines linguistic, cultural and historical implications of the words and phrases used to describe dark-skinned people, not only those of African or Indian sub-continental origin, before the advent of ‘scientific racism’.
12 May, room G35 Caroline Bressey, White Women and Black History: the case of Catherine Impey
2 June, room G35 Daniel Whittall, Black West Indians in Britain and the politics of empire, c. 1931-1948 This talk will focus on the expanding and alternative 'black public sphere' of 1930s and 1940s Britain, focusing in particular on the important place of public speaking and periodicals in the formation of political critiques of imperialism by black West Indians in Britain.
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BASA Membership... BASA is a membership organisation open to individuals and organisations. Members receive the three Newsletters, Conference charge discounts and a monthly Information Bulletin. To joint click on the BASA Membership form in the left hand column.
BASA Newsletter Subscription... Individuals and organisations not wishing to be members can subscribe annually to receive the three Newsletters. To subscribe click on the BASA Newsletter Subscription form in the left hand column.
BASAJISC... BASA also has an open discussion group BASAJISC. Anybody can join. Being a member of the BASAJISC list does not include membership of BASA. To joint BASAJISC click on the link in the left hand column.
Enquiries... All enquires about BASA should be addressed to the Secretary: Sean Creighton, 18 Ridge Rd, Mitcham, CR4 2ET. secretary@blackandasianstudies.org
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