To follow my previous email and the responses from some of you, please see below … A colleague in Edinburgh believes that the exhibition she mentions is will focus on where, to whom and on what Douglass (and perhaps others) addressed assemblies and meetings
Were there parish registers in Scotland? They are certainly one way of uncovering the Black presence. As are all those paintings with Black servants in the background…
From: BERNIER Celeste-Marie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 September 2018 04:02
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: | The University of Edinburgh
Dear Marika Sherwood,
Thank you so much for your kind email and I hope all's really wonderful with you. For your kind information I work across the history, politics, literature, visual cultures, philosophy and intellectual history as well as material cultures of African diasporic peoples, enslaved and free, from the 17th centuries until now.
In terms of research that includes information related to Scotland, I'm curating an exhibition Strike for Freedom which opens at the National Library of Scotland in October. We've also been working on and we're about to go live on the first map of African American activism in the city (both print and digital publications). Every day I am grateful to the brilliant wonderful researchers who are undertaking trailblazing work in the areas of Scotland and Africa that inspire me on with everything they do.
Yours sincerely,
Celeste-Marie Bernier
Celeste-Marie Bernier
Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of American Studies, Cambridge University Press
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LH
Scotland
From: MSherwood <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 09 September 2018 15:59
To: BERNIER Celeste-Marie
Subject: | The University of Edinburgh
Dear Professor Barnier,
I am writing to congratulate you and with apologies, ask a question.
I am delighted that the University has created a professorship of Black Studies. However, on reading about you on the web, your interest seems to be mainly on literature and arts. And on Frederick Douglass. So will you these be the foci of ‘Black Studies’?
What I would like is a massive amount of research on the relationship between Scotland and Africa, and on the presence/reception/experience of peoples of African origins/descent in Scotland! Should I be hopeful?
Yours sincerely,
Marika Sherwood
Sr Research Fellow
ICwS
University of London
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