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Author Sobers, Shawn-Naphtali

Title Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (219 p.)
Series Directions in Cultural History Ser
Directions in Cultural History Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Study Material Culture Through a Black-Heritage Lens? -- Small Anthropology Methodology -- Challenging Knowledge Hierarchies -- Knowledge Values -- Creative Inquiry -- Showing Behind the Scenes -- Output Values -- What Is Meant By Black Everyday Lives? -- 1 (Front Door/Hallway) -- Signs -- Those Everyday Signs -- Entertaining Strangers -- 2 (Living Room) -- Photo Wall -- Personal Archaeology -- Complex Emotional Attachment
After a Slight Awkward Pause ... -- After a Short Pause Than Before. -- 3 (Living Room) -- Television -- Stories to Tell -- Being Programmed -- Covid Television and the Black Atlantic -- Black Gaze On the Life, Death, and Legacy of an Electric Media Princess -- Postscript -- 4 (Living Room) -- Sewing Machine -- Mrs Enid Swaby -- Pauline -- Sandra -- Mrs Enid Swaby -- Mr Joseph -- Sewing Machine, a Girl's Best Friend? -- Up Ye Mighty Race! -- 5 (Living Room) -- The Armchair (Fiction) -- "Listen." -- 6 (Front Room) -- Radiogram -- Why Jim Reeves? -- Music as a Meaningful Material Culture
The Emperor's Radiogram -- End Note -- A Man in His Music -- 7 (Front Room) -- The Last Supper -- Just Jesus -- Jesus to Just Be -- 8 (Front Room) -- Souvenirs and Ornaments -- 9 (Kitchen) -- Dutch Pot -- Dutchie History -- Casual Hero -- 10 (Kitchen) -- Rice -- Singing for Supper -- 11 (Bathroom) -- Afro Comb -- Design Narratives -- Colour Codes -- 12 (Bathroom) -- Sickle Cell Anaemia Medication -- Kate's Story -- Sickle Cell On Screen -- 13 (Parent's Bedroom) -- Suitcase/Grip (Part 1) -- Suitcases and the Recovery of Apartheid Memory -- Returning to the Moment of Leaving
14 (Teenage Bedroom) -- Stuff (Photo Essay) -- 15 ('SENT For Child's' Bedroom) -- Suitcase/Grip (Part 2) -- Veronica's Story -- Postscript -- 16 (Garden) -- Soil -- Nature and the Grieving Process -- Standing On Africa (Fiction) -- Soil -- Postscript -- 17 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Black people -- Great Britain
Black people -- Housing -- Great Britain
Housing, Single family -- Decoration -- Great Britain
Black people
Black people -- Housing
Housing, Single family -- Decoration
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000861075
1000861074