African History, Black British History, Slavery, Racism Past and Present.

I have an interest in African History, Black British History, slavery, racism past and present from many perspectives, from how it effects and shapes society to how individuals interact with this social construct.

I have learnt a lot from what people post and what news articles are shared and the many educational websites out there so I have decided to use this page to share some of the fascinating things I find and maybe give a comment or two.

History of Blacks in Britain 1400's pre Civil War

• Miranda Kaufman  Researched Africans in Britain 1500's to 1640, (fascinating insights)
• Distorted history of Blacks in Britain

World war 1 & 2 and the Colonies

• Cecil Rhodes

• Colonies, Colonials and World War Two
• Africa and the First World War
• British Colonial Crimes Hidden
• Federation of Free States of Africa

Africa Before Transatlantic Enslavement

• Before Transatlantic Enslavement

Lynchings -

• Outrageous reasons Black People Where Lynched in America

Slavery and dehumanising of blacks

• Frederick Douglas Project

• britain slavery

• Black face

• Africa and the British Empire

• The Black presence in the white home

• Human Zoos

• UK Ban on Interracial Adoption

• Institutional racism

• Haitian Debt to France  (It can be said that ending Slavery only came at a cost when it came to France ending slavery, Haiti had to buy their way out, a firm basis for reparations rests on this question including looking at its effects whereby Haiti remains the poorest country in the Americas and one of the poorest in the world when in fact it was the most valuable to France one due to the sugar plantations, if you ever wondered why they are, then here is your answer, all their money since slavery went to France)

•  HAITI: Independence Debt, Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism, and International “Aid”

• French - Algerian Story

• African Resistance to Colonial Rule

• Abolition of slavery timeline

European Creation Of Racism

• Racist Ideas
• Racism in the age of Globalisation -  To look at racism as an isolate without considering its relationship to globalisation and therefore imperialism, is not only to descend into cultural-ism and ethnicism but to overlook the state racism that embeds institutional racism and gives a fillip to popular racism.
• African Resistance to Colonial Rule 
• Africa and the British Empire  This is the most comprehensive I have found
•  How white Marble helped Scholars Whitewash History.

• Rise of Racism in UK - An interesting look at experiences of racism in UK.

Beauty

• History of the Manilla Bangle

Historical British Black Activists and Influential People

• Mangrove 9

• Bristol Bus Boycott

• Liverpool Race Riots 1919

• Mary Seacole 

• Ignatius Sancho (c1729-1780): The Composer 

• Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa,

Modern Racism

• Remembrance day is for all of us it is not just for whites  
• This is Everyday Racism - Personal experience posts.

Documentaries

• BBC 4 History of Racism
• What Scientific Racism did to blacks worldwide 
• Race and Intelligence - Science's Last Taboo 
• Vintage British Racism
• A very British Kind of Racism  
• End of Poverty
• Economics of Happiness (2011) this is more looking at Globalisation which does tie in with destruction of cultures etc and is related in that it is all about money above people, this falls into my top 5 of all documentaries. 
•  Racism: A History
• Ethnic notions  the roots of racial stereotyping by uncovering 150 years of vicious portrayals of African Americans in art, film and even Saturday morning cartoons. 

Commercial Films

•  King Vidor: Hallelujah (1929)

Pre- Colonial

• Exploring Africa, beyond mud huts..

• Writing Another Continent’s History: The British and Pre-colonial Africa, 1880-1939

• Ancient Africa, a history denied.