English 360/560: Black Britain
>
Course Reader
> General Introduction
Required Reading:
Internet Resources (FYI/Recommended):
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
"
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