Black Southampton: Local History in Global Perspective
20 Oct 2020,
SUSU
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A roundtable exploring the interconnections between local, national, and global Black history through the prism of three case studies.
Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley will explore some of the ways that the British Empire is commemorated in Southampton, and will ask whether – in the context of debates around Colston and Rhodes – the city needs to rethink its own relationship to imperial history.
Dr Hannah Young will investigate the life and writings of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, a Sierra Leonian whose satirical observations of British life challenged the racism and imperialism of the Edwardian age.
Dr Christopher Prior will use a single moment in sporting history – protests against ‘rebel tour’ leader Mike Gatting playing cricket in Southampton in summer 1989 – to consider the city’s place in an increasingly networked world of Global South activism.
This event is brought to you by the University of Southampton BAME network.
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