2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of History of Black People and Racism in Britain
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10610381
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRATA Masahiro College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90181164)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | History of Black People in Britain / Racism / Imperial Mentality |
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| Research Abstract |
One of characteristics of studies of British history in Japan is that historians have concentrated on studies of history of England, Anglo-Saxon as a nation, white as a race, and they have tended to neglect the colonies and the celtic fringes (Wales, Scotland and Ireland). Historians have failed to present a framework of reference including the British Empire, celtic nations and non-whites. Although, in recent years, some historians have begun to take a framework of imperial history and celtic histories and such a hard framework of domestic history and an English-centric history is seriously being reconsidered, a new framework of study on British history including non-whites is not still presented enough.
This study is one of the results that I have done a research on history of black people in Britain by using the primary sources and taking a framework of imperial history and a viewpoint of non-whites.
My study consists of two parts : one is a study on the presence of black people in Britain and the other is one on the mentality of whites towards black people and a history of British racism.
The former is an historical analysis of black people, who were in not only Britain but also America and Africa at the end of the eighteenth century. The period studied here is very short but the perspective is world-wide.
The latter is a research of historical changes of the attitudes of whites towards black people by taking a long perspective which is effective for understanding complicated history of British racism. First I tried to divide British racism from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century into four : the demonology of race, plantocracy racism, pseudo-scientific racism, cultural racism of the twentieth century and then studied them respectively.
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Research Products
(17 results)
