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Decolonising Sambo

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CRITICAL MIXED RACE STUDIES

Edited by Shirley Anne Tate, University of Alberta, Canada.

This series adopts a critical, interdisciplinary perspective to the study of mixed race. It will showcase ground-breaking research in this rapidly emerging field to publish work from early career researchers as well as established scholars. The series will publish short books, monographs and edited collections on a range of topics in relation to mixed race studies and include work from disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences including Sociology, History, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Literature, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies and Cultural Studies.

Editorial Board: Suki Ali, LSE, UK; Ginetta Candelario, Smith College, USA; Michele Elam, Stanford University, USA; Jin Haritaworn, University of Toronto, Canada; Rebecca King O’Riain, Maynooth University, Ireland; Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, University of London, UK; Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago

Previously Published:

Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Black Mixed-race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-racial’ Resilience – Winner of the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Prize.

Forthcoming in this series:

Jennifer Patrice Sims and Chinelo L. Njaka, Mixed-race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present and Future.

Paul Ian Campbell, Identity Politics, ‘Mixed-race’ and Local Football in 21st Century Britain: Mix and Match.

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Decolonising Sambo: Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity

SHIRLEY ANNE TATE

University of Alberta, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2020

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

First, ‘thank you’ to my family for all of their love and support while I completed this book – Encarna, Damian, Soraya, Jenna, Tevian, Lachlan, Arion and Nolan. I also want to thank my sister QT for caring for our mother which gives me the space to do the work.

I want to thank the students in my 2019 course in the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki for sharing their knowledge on sambo within their contexts. This gave me the impetus I needed to feel that my ideas on sambo as global were ok.

I want to thank Macarena González Ulloa for sharing her photo-text on colonialism in Hamburg with me. This encouraged me to look at Germany’s involvement in the slave trade and white settler colonialism. My thanks also go to Beverley Lemire for the coffee in Edmonton and the tip that I should look at Sweden’s role in enslavement and writing on marble sculptures and racism.

Many thanks to the librarians in the West India Reading Room, Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, for their help with the archival work on sambo on Caribbean slave plantations. I also would like to thank the archivists in ‘El Archivo de Indias’ in Seville, Spain, for their patience and help in tracking zambo in the Spanish colonial archives. My thanks also go to the library at Nova Southeastern University, Florida, that gave me access for archival work and to Andrea Shaw for enabling this access.

Finally, my thanks to the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK, for funding my archival work. I really do appreciate this, as without it the book would not have emerged. Thank you to my colleague Heather Paul, who encouraged me to finish the book when she told me that her constant response to anti-Black racism over the years had to be that she was ‘not that little boy in the blue shorts and red shirt with the green umbrella!’