BASA on the
internet
BASA was set up in 1991 as the
Association for the Study of African, Caribbean and Asian Culture and History
in Britain. In 1997 the Association changed its name to Black & Asian Studies
Association (BASA). It ceased to be a viable organisation and its last
newsletter was published in 2012.
BASA remains visible in two ways. Its website
remains on the internet. It contains downloadable files of its activities on
education, museums and libraries and commemorations. It also has a section
listing the newsletters – the last being July 2012. The last few are
downloadable. There is also a list by Marika Sherwood of the contents of the
newsletters up to 2007.
A
Video of a seminar in December 2018 reviewing BASA can be seen at:
There is also the parallel continuing
BASA Jiscmail group.
Signifiers for
Optimism
(as
mentioned at the Seminar and some additional ones added since, inc. some
longer-term continuing initiatives)
(1) The History Matters Conference which Hakim
Adi and others had organised in 2015 had led to initiatives like the Young
People’s Project.
(2) the MRES – History of Africa and African
Diaspora programme Hakim leading at the University of Chichester attracting
mature students.
(3) Young Historians Project
(4) the
work carried out for the OCR GCSE module on migration.
(5) the
number of people campaigning on the issues on social media
(6) the
continued networking that takes place.
(7) The What’s Happening in British Black
History (WHBBH) conferences held twice a year.
(8) The use by pupils in some schools of oral
history to record the reminiscence of their grandparents before their stories
are lost.
(9) ‘The Black Curriculum’ – young Black British
graduates promoting Black British history in schools.
(10) Fill In The Blanks (Advocacy Academy) – south
London sixth formers who took direct action.
(11) The award-winning Our Migration Story website
- www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk –
led by Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology, at Manchester with an
Advisory Board and contributors including Hakim, Marika, Martin, Miranda, Michael,
and Ryan, Gemma Romain, Onyeka Nubia (Narrative Eye), Black Cultural Archives., Nick
Draper (Legacies of British Slave-ownership) Margot Finn, and Madge Dresser ;
it is
rich in Black British history.
(12) TIDE/Runnymede Beacon Fellowships in 2019 that
worked with secondary history and English teachers who developed units of work
on migration and empire which they then taught in their schools.
(13) The TIDE/Runnymede report launch in Parliament
which has the support of the MPs Helen Hayes and Dawn Butler.
(14) Miranda Kaufmann’s workshops with secondary
history teachers developing classroom work based on Black Tudors that
teachers taught in their schools, shared in workshops at the Historical
Association and Schools History project national conferences and wrote up in
the HA’s Teaching History magazine.
(15) The work done by Abdul Mahamud and Robin
Whitburn writing the AQA Migration and Empire GCSE textbook and their Justice
to History project – added by Martin since the seminar.
(16) Journey to Justice
(17) Stephen Lawrence Research Centre.
www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/stephen-lawrence-research-centre/index.aspx
(18) The
Black History Curriculum 2020 initiative:
(19) Memorial
2007
(20) Material
about slavery, abolition and the black presence on the North East Labour
History Society Popular Politics database which I edit at ppp.nelh.net.
Part 4 - is comments in response to the first three parts and additional information
http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2020/02/reflections-on-british-black-history.html
Part 4 - is comments in response to the first three parts and additional information
http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2020/02/reflections-on-british-black-history.html
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