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Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative Shawn-Naphtali Sobers

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative By Shawn-Naphtali Sobers

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative by Shawn-Naphtali Sobers

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Summary

This book is a ground-breaking exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice, through a multiplicity of voices and writing styles.

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative Summary

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House by Shawn-Naphtali Sobers

This book is timely, being produced in a timespan where the first generation of Windrush era arrivals are now in their late 70s and older, a generation which are sadly decreasing.

This is an engaging and accessible read, using the house as the framework to discuss Black British experience. It could have wider appeal for a general and popular audience - a book that plays into nostalgia but also has a more critical/intersectional approach

Including images from popular culture archives and images commissioned especially for the volume, this book acts both as a time capsule and a communicator, passing on embodied knowledge from the past, and protecting them for the future

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative Reviews

This is the only book that I've ever read that manages to capture how we really lived from day to day back in the day. It's a book like no other. Many of us have been waiting for a book like this. Ras Shawn-Naphtali has given the world a book that is intelligent, accessible, cultural, and lyrical, but true. This is a great contribution to the documentation of our history. This book did so much for me. It made me consider our struggles, our aspirations, and the art in our lives. - Professor Benjamin Zephaniah

Sobers uses his inclusive Small Anthropology creatively and incisively to show being and becoming of Black materiality in the home that speaks to us subjectively, intergenerationally, and cross culturally. - Dr Michael McMillan

Shawn-Naphtali Sobers presents an essential body of work and a must read primer for anyone interested in the significance of visual ethnography, anthropology, sociology, or interdisciplinary and mixed methodology. Shawn unapologetically renders the power of narrative, objects, and memory enmeshed within the realities of Black culture and history, transporting us into a state of consciousness that is indeed not burdened. - Dr Sireita Mullings

About Shawn-Naphtali Sobers

Shawn-Naphtali Sobers is Professor of Cultural Interdisciplinary Practice at University of the West of England, Director of the Critical Race and Culture Research Group, and teaches photography. As a visual anthropologist he has carried out many research projects, ranging from legacies of slavery, African presence in Georgian and Victorian Britain, disability and walking, Rastafari language and culture, creative citizenship, and Rastafari and Ethiopian connections with the city of Bath. As a filmmaker and photographer his work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, and has directed and produced documentaries with Firstborn Creatives for BBC1, ITV, and Channel 4.

Table of Contents

1. Front Door / Hallway signs 2. (Living Room) - Photo Wall 3. (Living Room) - Television 4. (Living Room) - Sewing Machine 5. (Living Room) - Armchair (fiction) 6. (Front Room) - Radiogram 7. (Front Room) - The Last Supper 8. (Front Room) - Souvenirs and Ornaments 9. (Kitchen) - Dutch Pot 10. (Kitchen) - Rice 11. (Bathroom) - Afro-comb 12. (Bathroom) - Sickle Cell Medication 13. (Parent Bedroom) - Suitcase / Grip - Part 1 14. (Teenage Bedroom) - Stuff (photo essay) 15. ('Sent-for child's' Bedroom) - Suitcase / Grip - Part 2 16. (Garden) - Soil (part fiction) 17. - Conclusion

Additional information

GOR013796405
9780367408671
0367408678
Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House by Shawn-Naphtali Sobers
Shawn-Naphtali Sobers
Directions in Cultural History
Used - Like New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-03-31
206
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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