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Research paper thumbnail of Critiquing ‘powerful knowledge’ in school geography through a decolonial lens

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Students in the Recontextualisation and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge: A Study of Sixth Form Geography Students

International perspectives on geographical education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Creolising London : black West Indian activism and the politics of race and empire in Britain, 1931-1948

Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work ... more Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated.

Research paper thumbnail of Creating Black Places in Imperial London: The League of Coloured Peoples and Aggrey House, 1931–1943

The London Journal, Nov 1, 2011

Abstract London in the 1930s was an imperial city marked by overt and covert racial discriminatio... more Abstract London in the 1930s was an imperial city marked by overt and covert racial discrimination. However, within this context, some black Londoners attempted to challenge the racialization of London's urban space and to forge hospitable places in which they could dwell, dine, dance, and debate. This paper provides a detailed history of the involvement of the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP), and in particular its founder Dr Harold Moody, in a Colonial Office-funded project to establish a hostel for colonial students, particularly African and African diasporic students, in London. It asserts that prior scholarship on Aggrey House has neglected the agency of the LCP in this project, and contributes to broader attempts to highlight the role of Africans and African diasporic subjects in altering the urban geography of London.

Research paper thumbnail of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945

Journal of Historical Geography, Apr 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire. By Leslie James

Twentieth Century British History, Jul 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Ambiguity and Imprint: British Racial Logics, Colonial Commissions of Enquiry, and the Creolization of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s

Callaloo, 2016

Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconfiguring Histories of Empire and Whiteness

Cambridge University Press’s new series, Critical Perspectives on Empire, marks an important deve... more Cambridge University Press’s new series, Critical Perspectives on Empire, marks an important development in historical studies of imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism. Seeking to move on from the binary split between supposed “new” and “old” imperial histories–the former often associated with postcolonial “theoretical” approaches to empire, the latter with more resolutely “empirical” approaches–the series positions itself explicitly within what its editors term “the emerging field of critical imperial studies.” In the first title of this series, Drawing the Global Colour Line, Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds significantly develop this approach with a focus on the histories of whiteness and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Research paper thumbnail of Ambiguity and Imprint: British Racial Logics, Colonial Commissions of Enquiry, and the Creolization of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s

Callaloo, 2016

Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Students in the Recontextualisation and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge: A Study of Sixth Form Geography Students

International Perspectives on Geographical Education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Creolising London : black West Indian activism and the politics of race and empire in Britain, 1931-1948

Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work ... more Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated.

Research paper thumbnail of George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire . By Leslie James

Twentieth Century British History, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Rating It

Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of ‘In this Metropolis of the World We Must Have a Building Worthy of Our Great People’: Race, Empire and Hospitality in Imperial London, 1931–1948

Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945

Journal of Historical Geography, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of Jon Cruddas: ethical (neo)liberalism

Research paper thumbnail of Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. By Carol Polsgrove

Twentieth Century British History, 2010

... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black ma... more ... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black male activist writers, especially CLR James and Jomo Kenyatta, by tracking them as ... Daniel Whittall. Royal Holloway, University of London. dan.whittall{at}gmail.com. © The Author [2010]. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Creating Black Places in Imperial London: The League of Coloured Peoples and Aggrey House, 1931–1943

Research paper thumbnail of Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. By Carol Polsgrove

Twentieth Century British History, 2010

... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black ma... more ... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black male activist writers, especially CLR James and Jomo Kenyatta, by tracking them as ... Daniel Whittall. Royal Holloway, University of London. dan.whittall{at}gmail.com. © The Author [2010]. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ambiguity and Imprint: British racial logics, colonial commissions, and the creolisation of  Britain in the 1930s and 1940s.  Calaloo: a journal of African diaspora Arts and Letters, Special Issue (2016)

To non-white subjects of empire living in the imperial metropolis of the 1930s, British racial lo... more To non-white subjects of empire living in the imperial metropolis of the 1930s, British racial logics could seem ambiguous. Though often less overt than in the colonies, racial dynamics nevertheless left their imprint on metropolitan life. This paper suggests that one way of better understanding the consolidation of racial identities in imperial Britain is to look to the practice of commissions of enquiry. We explore how these investigative, bureaucratic modes of imperial governance enabled a refining and, in some instances, a challenging of the sense of imperial Britishness; and created opportunities for colonial activists from Africa and the Caribbean to confront the racial codes at the heart of imperial Britain. Commissions served as both a site for discussion of race and empire, and a mode of their actualization in metropolitan political and social life.

Research paper thumbnail of Critiquing ‘powerful knowledge’ in school geography through a decolonial lens

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Students in the Recontextualisation and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge: A Study of Sixth Form Geography Students

International perspectives on geographical education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Creolising London : black West Indian activism and the politics of race and empire in Britain, 1931-1948

Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work ... more Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated.

Research paper thumbnail of Creating Black Places in Imperial London: The League of Coloured Peoples and Aggrey House, 1931–1943

The London Journal, Nov 1, 2011

Abstract London in the 1930s was an imperial city marked by overt and covert racial discriminatio... more Abstract London in the 1930s was an imperial city marked by overt and covert racial discrimination. However, within this context, some black Londoners attempted to challenge the racialization of London's urban space and to forge hospitable places in which they could dwell, dine, dance, and debate. This paper provides a detailed history of the involvement of the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP), and in particular its founder Dr Harold Moody, in a Colonial Office-funded project to establish a hostel for colonial students, particularly African and African diasporic students, in London. It asserts that prior scholarship on Aggrey House has neglected the agency of the LCP in this project, and contributes to broader attempts to highlight the role of Africans and African diasporic subjects in altering the urban geography of London.

Research paper thumbnail of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945

Journal of Historical Geography, Apr 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire. By Leslie James

Twentieth Century British History, Jul 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Ambiguity and Imprint: British Racial Logics, Colonial Commissions of Enquiry, and the Creolization of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s

Callaloo, 2016

Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconfiguring Histories of Empire and Whiteness

Cambridge University Press’s new series, Critical Perspectives on Empire, marks an important deve... more Cambridge University Press’s new series, Critical Perspectives on Empire, marks an important development in historical studies of imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism. Seeking to move on from the binary split between supposed “new” and “old” imperial histories–the former often associated with postcolonial “theoretical” approaches to empire, the latter with more resolutely “empirical” approaches–the series positions itself explicitly within what its editors term “the emerging field of critical imperial studies.” In the first title of this series, Drawing the Global Colour Line, Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds significantly develop this approach with a focus on the histories of whiteness and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Research paper thumbnail of Ambiguity and Imprint: British Racial Logics, Colonial Commissions of Enquiry, and the Creolization of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s

Callaloo, 2016

Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Students in the Recontextualisation and Transformation of Powerful Knowledge: A Study of Sixth Form Geography Students

International Perspectives on Geographical Education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Creolising London : black West Indian activism and the politics of race and empire in Britain, 1931-1948

Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work ... more Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel James Whittall, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated.

Research paper thumbnail of George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire . By Leslie James

Twentieth Century British History, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Rating It

Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of ‘In this Metropolis of the World We Must Have a Building Worthy of Our Great People’: Race, Empire and Hospitality in Imperial London, 1931–1948

Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945

Journal of Historical Geography, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of Jon Cruddas: ethical (neo)liberalism

Research paper thumbnail of Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. By Carol Polsgrove

Twentieth Century British History, 2010

... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black ma... more ... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black male activist writers, especially CLR James and Jomo Kenyatta, by tracking them as ... Daniel Whittall. Royal Holloway, University of London. dan.whittall{at}gmail.com. © The Author [2010]. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Creating Black Places in Imperial London: The League of Coloured Peoples and Aggrey House, 1931–1943

Research paper thumbnail of Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. By Carol Polsgrove

Twentieth Century British History, 2010

... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black ma... more ... Polsgrove also details the political differences which emerged between some of these black male activist writers, especially CLR James and Jomo Kenyatta, by tracking them as ... Daniel Whittall. Royal Holloway, University of London. dan.whittall{at}gmail.com. © The Author [2010]. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ambiguity and Imprint: British racial logics, colonial commissions, and the creolisation of  Britain in the 1930s and 1940s.  Calaloo: a journal of African diaspora Arts and Letters, Special Issue (2016)

To non-white subjects of empire living in the imperial metropolis of the 1930s, British racial lo... more To non-white subjects of empire living in the imperial metropolis of the 1930s, British racial logics could seem ambiguous. Though often less overt than in the colonies, racial dynamics nevertheless left their imprint on metropolitan life. This paper suggests that one way of better understanding the consolidation of racial identities in imperial Britain is to look to the practice of commissions of enquiry. We explore how these investigative, bureaucratic modes of imperial governance enabled a refining and, in some instances, a challenging of the sense of imperial Britishness; and created opportunities for colonial activists from Africa and the Caribbean to confront the racial codes at the heart of imperial Britain. Commissions served as both a site for discussion of race and empire, and a mode of their actualization in metropolitan political and social life.