Black chronicles : photography, race and difference in Victorian Britain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mussai, Renée (Author, Editor), Bressey, Caroline (Author), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Author), Gilroy, Paul, 1956- (Author), Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014 (Author), Jayawardane, Neelika (Author), Sealy, Mark (Author), Wilmer, Valerie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2025.
Subjects:	Black people > Great Britain > 19th century. Black people > Great Britain > Portraits. Photography > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Great Britain > Race relations > History > 19th century. Personnes noires > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle. Personnes noires > Grande-Bretagne > Portraits. Grande-Bretagne > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: embrace difference (X marks the spot / Renée Mussai
Whose eyes? - Black chronicles: Towards a (remedial decolonial archival) curatorial other/wise / Renée Mussai
The missing chapter / Stuart Hall
The dubious comfort of the archive / Paul Gilroy
Human geographies: photography as a roadmap for locating difference in the Victorian archive? / Renée Mussai and Caroline Bressey
Travelling Ayahs: shadow cosmopolitans in 19th-century British empire-making / M. Neelika Jayawardane
Assembling the evidence / Val Wilmer
Who are these people? / Biographical notes on sitters
Epilogue: encountering the child in the photograph / Lola Jaye
Afterword: photography and non-aligned histories / Mark Sealy
We are here because you were there.