This list, produced by the BARS Executive Committee, will share potential resources for anti-racist teaching and research in Romantic period studies. It is by no means complete or comprehensive, and the main priority in producing this blog post is to invite members, friends and followers of BARS to send us their suggestions for further items we can also help to promote and share. To do so, please contact Anna Mercer (BARS Communications Officer).
Thank you.
You can read about the actions the BARS President and Executive will be taking to support BAME members, colleagues and researchers in our statement of 12 June 2020.
Black Lives Matter.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Studies
ASECS: Resources for Teaching Anti-Racism and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Bigger6 Collective. ‘Formed in 2017 to challenge structural racism in the academic study of Romanticism. We are literary and cultural critics whose commitment to antiracist and anticolonial politics grounds our study of the global 18th and 19th centuries and their long (after)lives.’ Also their resource list.
BAVS: Black Lives Matter, Starting Points for the Victorianist
The History of Slavery and Black Lives Matter: A List of Resources from The International Slavery Museum
Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade via Bristol Museums
British Library Learning: The Campaign for Abolition
Resources on Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation via Brycchan Carey
Slavery in the National Archives
‘The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano’, via University of Oxford Faculty of English
K-SAA Anti-Racism Roundtable Part 1 & Part 2
K-SAA ‘Rethinking Romanticism’ Blog Series
‘Race, Pedagogy, and Whiteness in the Long 18c: A Teach-In’, a write up on the K-SAA Blog
K-SAA Uncovering the Archive – Phillis Wheatley Collection, 1757-1773, Emory University
Patricia A. Matthew, ‘Shondaland’s Regency: On “Bridgerton”’
Amanda-Rae Prescott ‘From Bridgerton to Sanditon – Putting Island Queen in a Period Drama Context’
The Congress of Vienna and abolition of the slave trade
Black Studies & Romanticism: A Virtual Conference, and report by Stacy A Creech
The Colston Statue: tickets and virtual exhibition, M Shed, Bristol Museums
Review of The Woman of Colour Broadview edition, Romantic Circles
Articles on Academia/Publishing
‘Antiracism in the Contemporary University’, LA Review of Books
‘It’s time to End the Publishing Gatekeeping’: A letter from the RaceB4Race Executive Board
‘White Academia: Do Better’ by Jasmine Roberts
‘What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently’ by Pirette McKamey
Donations
The National Memorial Family Fund is the first permanent national resource of its kind specifically for those that are affected by deaths in custody.
The History of Racial Justice and Structural Racism
‘Black Lives Matter: how the UK movement struggled to be heard in the 2010s’, The Conversation
‘Britain is not America. But we too are disfigured by deep and pervasive racism’, and other articles by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga – also, series on BBC, ‘Black and British: A Forgotten History’
Reading for Racial Justice. The University of Minnesota Press is committed to challenging white supremacy, police violence, and unequal access to criminal justice, education, and resources in Minnesota, the United States, and throughout the world. To promote understanding and action for change, this collection of antiracist books is available to all to read online for free through August 31, 2020
MUSE: Confronting Structural Racism. A selection of temporarily free scholarship from Project MUSE publishers on the history of structural racism in the United States and how the country can realize anti-racist reform
‘Juneteenth And National New Beginnings’ by Tera W. Hunter
‘The Black Women Who Paved the Way for this Moment’ by Keisha N. Blain
Twitter
@Bigger6Romantix – scholarly work and conversations committed to antiracist and anticolonial r/Romanticism(s) – also see the hashtag #Bigger6
@museum_detox – network for museum and gallery workers who identify as of colour.