Grassroots Surveillance: A Living Archive of the British Black Power Movement of the 1960s-70s
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Department Name: Inst of English Studies
Abstract
This project will hope to achieve a 'multi-layered and polyvocal perspective' on the Black Power movement through:
- A bibliographic survey of the unofficial publications of the British Black Power movement of the 1960s-70s, currently found across many local collections and in National Archives surveillance records.
- A survey of National Archives surveillance records on these publications and their authors. This will place surveillance of these works in historical and transnational perspective: cover the role of British anti-vagrancy laws dating back to the 16th century and also consider the use of Cold War-era cultural policing mechanisms.
- Oral history interviews with people involved in the production and circulation of this literature. These will include recollections of the past and responses to this archival material in the present.
- A bibliographic survey of the unofficial publications of the British Black Power movement of the 1960s-70s, currently found across many local collections and in National Archives surveillance records.
- A survey of National Archives surveillance records on these publications and their authors. This will place surveillance of these works in historical and transnational perspective: cover the role of British anti-vagrancy laws dating back to the 16th century and also consider the use of Cold War-era cultural policing mechanisms.
- Oral history interviews with people involved in the production and circulation of this literature. These will include recollections of the past and responses to this archival material in the present.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Perry Blankson (Student) |