Required Reading:

• David Dabydeen, "The Black Figure in 18th-Century Art" (BBC History)
• Selected galleries of the British National Archives' online exhibition, Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850:
  • "Early Times" (Use the sidebar to navigate among the subsections within this gallery)
  • "Representing Blackness"
  • "'Curiosities' and Exhibits"
• "Revealing the African Presence In Renaissance Europe": Exhibit at the Walters Museum, Baltimore | Review of the exhibit in the New York Times
• Michael Wood, "Britain's first black community in Elizabethan London" (BBC News Magazine)
• James Schultz,  “Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England.”  Quest [Old Dominion University newsletter] 5.1 (January 2002).  [alternate html version]
• See also the page of General Internet Resources on Black Britain, and contact me for access to other relevant readings from my course on "Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism"