the many-headed monster | the history of 'the unruly sort of clowns' and other early modern peculiarities
Jamie Gemmell
Imtiaz Habib's Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible (Routledge, 2008) is a touchstone for studying race and racialisation in early modern England. Through a careful analysis of “black citations”, Habib traces an “arc of invisibility” that begins with the unrecognition of Black lives in the sixteenth century and concludes in the seventeenth century with the “politicized racial subject”, a figure ensnared within English colonialism and racial slavery (p. 18). He upends thi
Over the past year, our Symposium has brought together scholars working in Premodern Critical Race Studies, Early Modern Studies, and Social History to think with Habib's text. In the winter, we hosted a series of online reading groups in preparation for a presentation (to be held at the London Metropolitan Archives on 19th May) and a blog series, published by the many-headed monster blog . The series reflects on the importance of Habib's contribution and pushes his work in new directions.
On 19th May we will gather at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to launch our blog series. Contributors will present their blogs and attendees will be able to take a tour around the LMA's "Unforgotten Lives" exhibition. To attend, please sign up via our Eventbrite .
the many-headed monster | the history of 'the unruly sort of clowns' and other early modern peculiarities
Jamie Gemmell