Political Blackness, British Cinema, and the Queer Politics of Memory

This essay queries “political Blackness” as a coalitional antiracist politics in England in the 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary debates on the relevance of political Blackness in contemporary British race politics often forget significant critiques of the concept articulated by feminist and queer scho...

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Main Author:	Ashvin Kini
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cultural Studies Association 2020-12-01
Series:	Lateral
Subjects:	political blackness feminism queer anti-racism diaspora british cinema british cinema anti-blackness racism
Online Access:	https://csalateral.org/issue/9-2/political-blackness-british-cinema-and-the-queer-politics-of-memory/

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description	This essay queries “political Blackness” as a coalitional antiracist politics in England in the 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary debates on the relevance of political Blackness in contemporary British race politics often forget significant critiques of the concept articulated by feminist and queer scholars, activists and cultural producers. Through close readings of Isaac Julien and Maureen Blackwood’s 'The Passion of Remembrance' and Hanif Kureishi’s 'Sammy and Rosie Get Laid,' this essay examines cinematic engagements with political Blackness by foregrounding the gender and sexual fault lines through which queers and feminists articulated relational solidarities attentive to difference.
topic	political blackness feminism queer anti-racism diaspora british cinema british cinema anti-blackness racism
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Political Blackness, British Cinema, and the Queer Politics of Memory

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