About Us

Bridging The Atlantic: Conversation On Blackness, in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives. We will be hosting a series of speakers to provide a forum for different communities from the Black Atlantic to talk and discuss the historical context of blackness. The series will include fashion, art, social and political activism, and culture. Our speakers represent a large portion of the black diaspora USA, UK, Trinidad, Jamaica Brazil, and Ghana.

We will also be offering several cultural events from fashion and art workshops, digital poetry, digital dance night, and an open interactive panel discussion for younger audiences, but all are welcome. Please find our list of events in the "Events" tab.

Join us as we take advantage of this digital space to facilitate a conversation on blackness. Register Now!


Location
Digital Series To Be Held Online
Date & Time
Thursdays/ Saturday's
 2pm EST/ 19:00  BST  
Schedule
Thursdays and Saturdays
2:00 EST/ 19:00 BST

9th JUly 2020
Bridging the Atlantic: Introduction Talk with Dr. Ayshah Johnston and Daisha Brabham
We will begin our series with a brief talk on diaspora and blackness and its meaning in the modern day.
16th July 2020 
 Diasporic Threads: Black Fashion 
Fashion is a language. Throughout the centuries, it has been used to define oneself. Join us we look at how fashion has worked to cultivate, define and shape the Black Diaspora with three fashion historians Dr. Siobhan Carter David, Dr. Tanisha Ford and Dr. Carol Tulloch. They will be sharing some of the most iconic looks over the past century and how that has translated and worked to define blackness.
18th July 2020 
 What Is Your Style? 
What is your style? People of all ages can join in on Saturday to make their own fashion piece based on their definition of Black or Diaspora. Pictures will be shared on our social media platforms!
23Rd July 2020 
OWAAD: Defining Black In Britain
The Organization of Asian and African Women Descent, established in 1978 in London, had a defining impact on the development of Black activism within the UK. Their moves to define blackness and organize for changes in education, immigration and healthcare, have largely been left out of collective memory. Join us for a conversation with Stella Dadzie to discuss how blackness and gender have been defined in Britain and the legacy of OWAAD.
25th July 2020 
Beat
We will have a live dance session where will we be performing and dancing some of the most defining dances of the black diaspora from merengue to hip hop to traditional African dance. Come break a sweat to the beat.  
30th July 2020 
Live Oral History of The Black Power Movement 
The Black Power Movement remains one of the most underestimated and misunderstood eras of history. Join us three people from London, Trinidad and New Haven will share their experiences of the Black Power Movement. Come and hear their experiences of what it felt like to be a part of the movement that would define a generation.
6th August 2020 
Black Art 
Titus Kaphar argues “all of art is fiction, is it only a question of to what degree”. We will looking at how blackness has been portrayed in art by speaking to black artists and art historians throughout the globe. They will be sharing the paintings they feel have shaped our understanding of blackness and how art can translate to social change and a shift in our collective memory.
8th August 2020 
Diasporic Drawings
People of all ages can join in on Saturday to make their own art piece based on their definition of Black or Diaspora and the talk. Pictures will be shared on our social media platforms!
13th August 2020

Bridging The Atlantic: A Panel Discussion 
Join us for a culminating conversation where people from all over the Black Diaspora will discuss their experiences and where we move forward from here.
15th August 2020
Water Worlds Digital Poetry Event 
Join us for a final event! Our live digital poetry night where writers from all over the globe will share their work!
 This Week 
Join us on 8 August 2020 
Location
Zoom Link Provided During Registration 
Date & Time
09 July 2020
2:00 EST
19:00 BST
Book Club  
Want to do some reading? Check out our must reads by the different events! You can also find the works of our fabulous speakers. 
Black Fashion 

Carter-David, S. D. (2014). “‘To Mirror the Happier Side of Negro Life’: Ebony and Jet in Black Cultural and Print History.” In J. Lott, J. James, L. Haynes, & H. Ringle (Eds.), "Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art" Exhibition Catalog. Retrieved from www.studiomuseum.org

Ford, Tanisha C. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Ford, Tanisha C. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion. St. Martin's Press, 2019.

Gainer, Nichelle. Vintage Black Glamour: Gentlemen's Quarters. Rocket 88, 2016.

Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Duke University Press, 2010.

Tulloch, Carol. The Birth of Cool. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.

White, Constance C. R. How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens & Kings of Black Style. Rizzoli New York, 2018.

White, Shane, and Graham J. White. Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Cornell University Press, 1999.
OWAAD: Defining Black Female Activism in Britain 

Asher, Kiran. ""Seeing Through the Eyes of Black Women: Afro-Colombian Women's Activism in the Pacific Lowlands.".(WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENTS)." Resources for Feminist Research 32, no. 3-4 (2007): 228.

Bryan, Beverley, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe. The Heart of the Race : Black Women's Lives in Britain. New] Edition / Foreword by Lola Okolosie. ed. 2018.

Dadzie, Stella Abasa. Kick In the Belly : How West Indian Women Resisted Slavery. Verso, 2020.

Farmer, Ashley D. "Mothers of Pan-Africanism: Audley Moore and Dara Abubakari." Women, Gender, and Families of Color 4, no. 2 (2016): 274-95.

Feldstein, Ruth. ""The World Was On Fire": Black Women Entertainers and Transnational Activism in the 1950s." Magazine of History 26, no. 4 (2012): 25-29.

Hill Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought : Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Keisha N. Blain, Asia Leeds, and Ula Y. Taylor. "Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism." Women, Gender, and Families of Color 4, no. 2 (2016): 139-45.

Lindsey, Treva B. "Negro Women May Be Dangerous: Black Women's Insurgent Activism in the Movement for Black Lives." Souls: Combahee at 40: New Conversations and Debates in Black Feminism 19, no. 3 (2017): 315-27.

Perkins, Margo V. Autobiography as Activism. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Silkey, Sarah L. Black Woman Reformer. University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Live Oral History of the Black Power Movement

Angelo, Anne-Marie. "The Black Panthers in London, 1967-1972: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic." Radical History Review 2009, no. 103 (2009): 17-35.

Baldwin, James. The Fire next Time. Penguin Twentieth-century Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1964.

Fanon, Frantz, and Richard. Philcox. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove, 2004.

Matera, Marc. Black London : The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century. California World History Library ; 22. 2015.

Nkrumah, Kwame. Africa Must Unite. London: Panaf, 2007.

Spencer, Robyn C. The Revolution Has Come. North Carolina: Duke University Press Books, 2016.

Waters, Rob. "Thinking Black: Peter Fryer’s Staying Power and the Politics of Writing Black British History in the 1980s." History Workshop Journal 82, no. 1 (2016): 104-20.
Black Art

Kaufmann, Miranda. Black Tudors : The Untold Story. 2017.

Smith, Michelle. "Blackening Europe/Europeanising Blackness: Theorising the Black Presence in Europe." Contemporary European History 15, no. 3 (2006): 423-39.

Smith, Shawn Michelle. "'Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others': W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition." African American Review 34, no. 4 (2000): 581.
Location
Digital Series To Be Held Online
Date & Time
July 2, 2020, 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
 Join us on Thursdays and Saturdays  
We look forward to hosting you!

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