Selected Bibliography of
Black & Asian British History
at the British Library
Edition December 2013, compiled by Andy Simons, curator of UK non-literary publications, from 1914 to the present, c/o Printed Historical Collections ►
This is intended as a guide to research. It could not be complete, but additions are welcome.
An effort has been made to include religious publications if they are also political in nature.
This list is mainly of monographs but note that the periodicals are at the end.
Literary criticism is included, but works of fiction and poetry are not.
All publishers are based in London unless noted otherwise.
British Library shelf marks are included.
Relevant journals are noted but individual articles within them are not. Keep in mind that numerous journal and newspaper articles are within mainstream (not specifically Black or Asian) titles, and these can be searched on-site in St. Pancras, using the Library’s many subscription-based electronic resources.
Researchers should investigate these further repositories:
Black Cultural Archives
1 Othello Close
London SE11 4RE
020-7582-8516 www.bcaheritage.org.uk
The Bishopsgate Institute
230 Bishopsgate
London EC2M 4QH
020-7392-9270
Of special note is the Bernie Grant Archive, the personal papers of the late Tottenham MP, also held at : Middlesex University
Cat Hill Campus
Barnet EN4 8HT
see : www.berniegrantarchive.org.uk .
The Black History Collection – Institute of Race Relations
2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS
Contact: Rebecca Wood - rebecca @ irr.org.uk 020-7837-0041
Including numerous rare titles such as Freedom News, Magnet – Voice of the Afro-Caribbean Peoples, Bradford Black, Uhuru Nottingham, Black Chat Leicester, Manchester Black Voice, Black Dimension, etc.
Black Caribbean Community Archives
at The London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London EC1R 0HB
020-7332.3820
Especially notable are the Eric & Jessica Huntley Archives consists of the Bogle-L’Ouvreture Press Archives, 1952-2008, the Hansib Publications Archive, records of parish residence, the slave trade, London education, the Notting Hill Carnival, etc. .
The London School of Economics (LSE) Library
10 Portugal Street
London WC2A 2HD
020 7955 7229
Note : LSE hold an axtensive political pamphlets collection and, by July 2013, will be the custodians of The Women’s Library, formerly with London Metropolitan University.
The National Archives
Kew (Richmond)
Surrey TW9 4DU
20-8876-3444 nationalarchives.gov.uk
Of special note :
Mandy Barton : Administering the Empire, 1801-1968 – A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office
(2008)
Guy Grannum : Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors (Bloomsbury, 3rd ed., 2012)
The George Padmore Institute
76 Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, London N4 3EN
020 7272 8915
The GPI has the personal papers of academic Anne Walmsley relating to the Caribbean Arts Movement, 1966-1972 her papers on Caribbean literature are held at the University of Sussex Library and John La Rose New Beacon. The La Rose materials are being catalogued in a project due to finish in 2015.
►See also the Caribbean Migration Histories Timeline on the ‘Moving Here’ website :
www.movinghere.org.uk/ galleries/histories/caribbean/ caribbean.htm
Archive of BBC Caribbean broadcasts, 1998-2011 totalling more than 3,000 hours of programming, have been donated to the University of the West Indies (www.uwi.edu).
Centerprise Bookshop (Dalston, London E8) closed down by Hackney Council in 2012.
Website resources :
The Black Presence in Britain – www.blackpresence.co.uk
Chronicleworld’s Archives – www.chronicleworld.org
www.jeffreygreen.co.uk
Note : This website generally concerns people of African descent in Britain but also has items aboutChinese and South Asian British, and rare images.
Note also the most complete bibliography on British Fascism, available via .
Monographs
Muhammad Yusuf Abbasi
London Muslim League, 1908-1928: An Historical Study
Islamabad: National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, 1988
ORW.1989.a.748
Tahir Abbas
British Islam : The Road to Radicalism
Cambridge University Press, 2009
SPIS 320.5570941
Tahir Abbas
Islamic Political Radicalism : A European Perspective
Edinburgh University Press, 2007
YK.2008.a.2846 and m07/16140 DSC
Tahir Abbas, Yahya Birt, Hamza Yusef Hanson, H.A. Hellyer, and Aftab Ahmad Malik
The State We Are In : Identity, Terror, and the Law of Jihad [British Muslims]
Amal Press, 2006
YD.2009.a.291
Tahir Abbas
Muslim Britain : Communities Under Pressure
Zed Books, 2005
m05/21732 DSC
Tahir Abbas
The Education of British South Asians : Ethnicity, Capital, and Class Structure
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
YC.2006.a.2349 and m04/30098 DSC
Tahir Abbas and Frank Reeves
Immigration and Race Relations : Sociological Theory and John Rex
IB Tauris, 2007
m07/32153 DSC
Karen Abi-Ezzi
British Arabs: How They Perceive Life in the UK
Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding / CAABU, 2000
DSC [No 64] 2943.692000
William Ackah and Mark Christian
Black Organisation and Identity in Liverpool : A Local, National, and Global Perspective
Charles Wooten College Press, 1997
YC.1997.a.3847
Sir Richard Acland, Vera Brittain, G. D. H. [George Douglas Howard] Cole, Victor Gollancz, Augustus John, Ethel Mannin, James Maxton, J. B. Priestley, etc.
Against Race Hatred and for a Socialist Peace [manifesto]
1940
YD.2008.a.643
Caroline Adams, ed.
Across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers – Life Stories of Pioneer Sylhetti Settlers in Britain
THAP, 1987 [Bangledeshi]
YC.1998.a.6832, ORW.1989.a.308, 88/03554, and HUS 920.00923
Hakim Adi [see also works with Marika Sherwood]
Nelson Mandela: Father of Freedom
Hodder Wayland, 2000
YK.2001.b.3940
Hakim Adi
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism
Lawrence & Wishart, 1998
YC.1999.a.3231
Hakim Adi
The History of the African and Caribbean Communities in Britain
Hove: Wayland, 1995
YC.1995.b.7059
Hakim Adi
African Migrations
Hove: Wayland, 1994
YK.1995.b.8866
Haleh Afshar
The Dynamics of ‘Race’ and Gender : Some Feminist Interventions
Taylor & Francis, 1994
YC.1994.b.4619 and 94/12666 DSC
Paul Iganski
Hate Crime and the City
Bristol: Policy Press, 2008
YC.2009.a.14 and m08/28471
Paul Aganski and David Mason
Ethnicity, Equality of Opportunity and the British National Health Service
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002
YC.2006.a.11661 and m02/19882 DSC
Paul Iganski, ed., with Elizabeth Burney
The Hate Debate : Should Hate be Punished as a Crime?
Profile, 2002
YC.2002.a.11988 and m03/12825 DSC
Paul Iganski
Recruiting Minority Ethnic Groups into Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Visiting
English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, 1998
99/26249
Fauzia Ahmad
Modern Traditions? British Muslim Women, Higher Education, and Identities
PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006
DXN106956
Kabir Ahmed
Politics and Art in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o and George Lamming
PhD dissertation, A Comparative Approach, 1989
DX78766
Rehana Ahmed
Locating Class in Multicultural Britain : A Materialist Reading of Some Contemporary British Asian and South Asian Texts
PhD thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2005
Available as electronic resource via ETHOS system.
Rehana Ahmed
Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Picador, 2004
H.2006/3968
Sameera T. Ahmed
Young British Muslims: Social Space and Active Identity
PhD Thesis, University of Leicester, 2003
DSC DX225076
Olutoyin Pamela Akinjobi
Herstory : Migration Stories of African Women in Ireland
Dublin : AkiDwa, 2006
YC.2007.a.10086
Emmanuel K Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr, eds, with numerous contributors
Dictionary of African Biography
OUP, 2012
vol. 1 - YC.2012.b.314
vol. 2 - YC.2012.b.315
vol. 3 - YC.2012.b.316
vol. 4 - YC.2012.b.317
vol. 5 - YC.2012.b.318
vol. 6 - YC.2012.b.319
M.Y. Alam, ed.
Made in Bradford [oral histories]
Pontrefract : Route / Joseph Rountree Foundation, 2006
M07/29333
Frederick Luis Aldama
Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar ‘Zeta’ Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2003
m03/23960
James Edward Alexander
Transatlantic Sketches: comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies, with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration
London: R. Bentley, 1833
Mic.F.232
Ahmed Ali & Ali Ibrahim
The Black Celts : An Ancient African Civilisation in Ireland and Britain
Cardiff : Punite Books, 1993, 1994
YC.1997.a.59 and 95/28917
N. Ali, V.S. Kalra, S. Sayyid, eds.
A Postcolonial People – South Asians in Britain
C. Hurst, 2006
YC.2007.a.10957 and m07/30577
Tariq Ali
Street Fighting Years : An Autobiography of the Sixties
Collins, 1987; Glasgow: Fontana, 1998; Verso, 2005
YC.1988.a.13458 and YK.2007.a.9348
Tariq Ali
1968 – Marching in the Streets
Bloomsbury, 1998
YC.2002.b.378 and 98/14961 DSC
Tariq Ali, Darcus Howe & Julius Nyerere
President Nyerere [Tanzania] in Conversation with Tariq Ali and Darcus Howe
Race Today Publications, 1986
YC.1990.a.1928 and 88/01878 DSC
Tariq Ali and Ken Livingstone
Who’s Afraid of Margaret Thatcher? – In Praise of Socialism
Verso, 1984
X.529/66141 and 84/28129 DSC
Tariq Ali: see also periodical, Black Dwarf
Sheila Allen
New Minorities, Old Conflicts : Asian and West Indian Migrants in Britain
New York City : Random House, 1971
X.709/18462 and 73/15165 DSC
Sheila Allen, Stuart Bentley and Joanna Bornat
Work, Race, and Immigration
University of Bradford School of Studies in Social Sciences, 1977
X.519/29512
Brian W. Alleyne
Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics
Oxford: Berg, 2002
m02/30481
Ahman Muhammad Al-Shabaan
The Role of Education in Maintaining the Islamic Identity of Muslims in Bradford
PhD Thesis, University of Hull, 2000
DSC DX228242
Geoffrey Alderman and Colin Holmes, eds.
Outsiders and Outcasts : Essays in Honour of William J. Fishman
Duckworth, 1993
YC.1997.b.1939 and 93/14818 DSC
Claire E. Alexander, Joya Chatterji, and Annu Jalais
The Bengal Diaspora : Muslim Migrants in Britain, India and Bangladesh
Routledge, 2013
Shelfmark pending
Sheila Allen, Stuart Bentley and Joanna Bornat
Work, Race and Immigration
University of Bradford, School of Social Sciences, 1977
X.519/29512, 80/8293 DSC
Saied Reze Ameli and Arzu Merali
Hijab, Meaning, Identity, Otherization and Politics : British Muslim Women
Islamic Human Rights Commission, 2006
DSC [vol 4] 2330.722500
Saied Reza Ameli, Aliya Azam and Arzu Merali
British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government: Secular or Islamic? What Schools Do British Muslims Want for Their Children
Islamic Human Rights Commission, 2005
DSC v. 3 2330.722500
Saied Reza Ameli and Arzu Merali
Dual Citizenship: British, Islamic, or Both? Obligation, Recognition, Respect and Belonging
Islamic Human Rights Commission, 2004
YC.2006.b.2395
Saied Reza Ameli and Arzu Merali
Globalization, Americanization and British Muslim Identity
Islamic College for Advanced Studies/ICAS Press, 2002
DSC m03/32083
Kaushika Amin and Robin Richardson, eds.
Addressing the Challenge of Islamophobia: Progress Report 1999-2001
Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, 2004
DSC m04/18434
Sushila Anand
Indian Sahib – Queen Victoria’s Dear Abdul
Duckworth, 1996
YK.1996.b.15634 and 96/23056
Edward E. Andrews
Native Apostles : Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
Harvard University Press, 2013
Shelfmark pending
Anne-Marie Angelo
The Black Panthers in London, 1967-1972: A Disaporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic
In : Radical History Review, No.103.
7228.092700 DSC
Humayun Ansari
The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain Since 1800
Minority Rights Group International, 2002; Hurst, 2004
DSC m02/35714 and DSC m04/24635
Muhammad Anwar
British Muslims and State Policies
Coventry : Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, 2003
DSC m03/33269
Muhammad Anwar
Race and Politics: Ethnic Minorities and the British Political System
Tavistock, 1986
YC.1986.a.3642, T48741, YK.1985.a.836, 86/17505 DSC
Muhammad Anwar
Young Muslims in a Multi-Cultural Society: Their Educational Needs and Policy Implications – The British Case
Leicester : Islamic Foundation, c1982
DSC 82/22672
Muhammad Anwar
The Myth of Return : Pakistanis in Britain
Heinemann, 1979
X.529/34006, T 34187, and 79/24520 DSC
Muhammad Anwar
Who Tunes in to What? A Report on Ethnic Minority Broadcasting
Commission for Racial Equality, 1978
BS.400/22 and 79/0410 DSC
Muhammad Anwar
A Sociological Study of Pakistanis in a Northern Town in England: Sponsorship and Patronage in the Formation of Social Networks and the Role of Ethnicity in the Community
PhD thesis, University of Bradford, 1977
Electronic resource
Nzingha Assata
Women in the Garvey Movement
Mitcham: the author, 2008
YK.2009.a.27337
Rasheed Araeen
The Other Story : Afro-Asian Artists in Post-war Britain
South Bank Centre, 1989
LB.31.b.7114
R. Victoria Arana, ed/
Twenty-First Century ‘Black’ British Writers
Detroit: Gale, 2009
3580.297500 347 2009 DSC
R. Victoria Arana
‘Black’ British Aesthetics Today
Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2007
DSC m07/.21786
R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey, eds.
Black British Writing
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
YC.2006.a.4859 and m04/.35326 DSC
David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick
The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
YC.2009.a.5933 and m09/.15788 DSC
KC [Keshavna Chanda] Arora
Indian Nationalist Movement in Britain, 1930-1949
New Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1992
ORW.1993.a.1047
Asian Librarians & Advisors Group
Asian Periodicals & Performers and Writers List
Southall: ALAG, 1999
ORW.2000.a.1051
Association of Dance of the African Diaspora
ADAD Newsletters and Magazine, 1994-2003
ADAD, 2007
YD.2007.b.902
Association of Muslim Researchers
Islam and Music
AMRf, 1996
DSC q96/00944
Syed Hussein Atalas
The Myth of the Lazy Native : A Study of the Image of the Malays, Filipinos, and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th Century and its Function in the Ideology of Colonial Capitalism
Cass, 1977
X.809/41796, T 33066, and 77/23130 DSC
Aziz al-Azmeh and Effie Fokas, eds.
Islam in Europe : Diversity, Identity and Influence
CUP, 2007
YC.2009.a.1785 and m08/11873 DSC
Razia Aziz and Aqeelah Alam
Reach Out Training Pack: Personal Relationships, Sexuality and Needs of African and Asian Descent Learning Disabled Women
Family Planning Association, 2000
YK.2000.b.3928
Les Back
The Art of Listening
Oxford: Berg, 2007
YC.2011.a.2674 and YD.2007.a.8133
Les Back and John Solomos
Theories of Race and Racism
Routledge, 2007
YC.2009.b.407; Earlier editions: YC.2003.b.1605 and m00/10726 DSC
Les Back, Steve Cross and Kalbir Shukra
A Nationwide Response to Racism: Towards a National 24-hour Emergency Helpline for Victims of Racist Attacks and Violence
Goldsmiths College: Centre for Urban and Community Research, 2004
m05/.25516 DSC
Les Back and Vron Ware
Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture