Black chronicles : photography, race and difference in Victorian Britain / edited by Renée Mussai ; texts by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, Renée Mussai, Mark Sealy and Val Wilmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bressey, Caroline, author.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author.

Gilroy, Paul, 1956- author.

Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014, author.

Jayawardane, Neelika, author.

Sealy, Mark, author.

Wilmer, Valerie, author.

Contributor:

Mussai, Renée, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Great Britain--19th century.

Black people.

Black people--Great Britain--Portraits.

Photography--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Photography.

Great Britain--Race relations--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

304 pages : portraits, black and white photographs ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction: embrace difference (X marks the spot / Renée Mussai

Whose eyes? - Black chronicles: Towards a (remedial decolonial archival) curatorial other/wise / Renée Mussai

The missing chapter / Stuart Hall

The dubious comfort of the archive / Paul Gilroy

Human geographies: photography as a roadmap for locating difference in the Victorian archive? / Renée Mussai and Caroline Bressey

Travelling Ayahs: shadow cosmopolitans in 19th-century British empire-making / M. Neelika Jayawardane

Assembling the evidence / Val Wilmer

Who are these people? / Biographical notes on sitters

Epilogue: encountering the child in the photograph / Lola Jaye

Afterword: photography and non-aligned histories / Mark Sealy

We are here because you were there.

ISBN:

9780500026618

0500026610

OCLC:

1522733885