Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain

Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain is a book written by Peter Fryer that is considered a definitive history of the Black presence in Britain, beginning with the Roman conquest. First published by Pluto Press in 1984, Staying Power was reissued in 2010 in a new edition with a foreword by Gary Younge and introduction by Paul Gilroy "explaining the genesis of the book and its continuing significance in black history today".[1][2] As stated by Rob Waters in his article "Thinking Black: Peter Fryer's Staying Power and the Politics of Writing Black British History in the 1980s" (2016), published in History Workshop Journal: "The book was widely praised at the time of publication for its historical reach and magisterial prose, and it has remained a foundational text of black British history."[3]

Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
AuthorPeter Fryer
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBlack British history
Published1984 (1984)
PublisherPluto Press
Media typePrint
Pages656
ISBN9780745338316

Notable writers and scholars who have endorsed Staying Power include C. L. R. James ("Rare in its mastery"), David Olusoga ("Encyclopedic, courageous and passionately written.... Everyone who has researched or written on the subject since its publication in 1984 owes something to Fryer'") and Salman Rushdie ("An invaluable book, which manages the rare feat of combining scholarship with readability").[4]

Contents

The author's Preface begins with the sentence: "Black people – by whom I mean Africans and Asians and their descendants – have been living in Britain for close on 500 years." Twelve chapters follow:

  1. "'Those Kinde of People'"
  2. "'Necessary Implements'"
  3. "Britain's Slave Ports"
  4. "The Black Community Takes Shape"
  5. "Eighteenth-Century Voices"
  6. "Slavery and the Law"
  7. "The Rise of English Racism"
  8. "Up from Slavery"
  9. "Challenges to Empire"
  10. "Under Attack"
  11. "The Settlers"
  12. "The New Generation"

References
  1. "Staying Power: The History Of Black People In Britain" – via New Beacon Books.
  2. "Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain". Pluto Press.
  3. Waters, Rob (2016). "Thinking black: Peter Fryer's Staying power and the politics of writing black British history in the 1980s" (PDF). History Workshop Journal. Sussex Research Online. 1 (82): 104–120. ISSN 1363-3554.
  4. "Staying Power – Endorsements". Pluto Press.
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