Belonging in Europe - The African Diaspora and Work

Caroline Bressey’s research focuses upon recovering the historical geographies of the black community in 19th century Britain, especially London.  Parallel to this are her interests in ideas of race, racism, early anti-racist theory and identity in Victorian society. She has worked as a curator and is a lecturer in the department of geography, University College London.

• 1. Introduction: Belonging in Europe Caroline Bressey and Hakim Adi 2. Job Mobility amongst Black People in England and Wales during the Long Eighteenth Century Kathleen Chater 3. ‘No Longer Strangers and Foreigners, but Fellow Citizens’: The Voice and Dream of Jacobus Eliza Capitein, African Theologist in the Netherlands (1717 – 47) Dienke Hondius 4. Pictured at Work: Employment in Art (1800 – 1900) Jan Marsh 5. Looking for Work: The Black Presence in Britain 1860 – 1920 Caroline Bressey 6. John Archer and the Politics of Labour in Battersea (1906 – 32) Sean Creighton 7. Surviving in the Metropole: The Struggle for Work and Belonging amongst African Colonial Migrants in Weimar Germany Robbie Aitken 8. The Comintern and Black Workers in Britain and France 1919 – 37 Hakim Adi 9. Fighting Racism: Black Soldiers and Workers in Britain during the Second World War Gavin Schaffer