Introduction
Black history is an intellectual and a political activity.
It is about discovering or rediscovering the history of people
of African or Asian descent who came (or who are descended
from those who came) from the British colonial empirem, i.e.
from Africa, the Caribbean or the Indian sub-continent.
The Black history movement in Britain started in the 1970s,
emerging out of the Black nationalist and anti-racist movements
of the late 1960s/early 1970s. Like working class history and
women's history, the Black history movement is concerned with
groups of people who have been left out of the historical record
or treated as marginal to British history. This omission or
marginalisation is comparable with, and arguably caused by,
the exclusion and discrimination that Black people experience
in white British society.
Research and publication of Black history has a number of
different purposes:
Rectifying the incompleteness and imbalance
of the historical record
Providing useful knowledge for Black people
Providing useful knowledge for white people
Task for students
Expand on the last two points:
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