Black Scottish people
Total population | |
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Scotland 36,178 (2011)[1] African – 29,000 Black Caribbean – 3,000 Black/Other Black – 3,000[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paisley | |
Languages | |
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Religion | |
Predominantly Christianity; minorities follow Islam, Irreligion, Atheism, Baháʼí Faith, Rastafari, Traditional African religions, other religions
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Black Scottish people are a
Background
Census
According to the
Identity
The identity of Black Scottish people has evolved since the arrival of
Notable Black Scottish people
Arts and entertainment
- Aminatta Forna (writer)
- Kayus Bankole (member of Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers)
- Shereen Cutkelvin (singer in girl group Neon Jungle)
- Nicolette (musician)
- Tony Osoba (actor)
- Ncuti Gatwa (actor)
- Moyo Akandé (actress)
- Layla-Roxanne Hill (writer and activist)
- Finley Quaye (musician)
- Jackie Kay (writer)
- Eunice Olumide (model)
- Luke Sutherland (novelist and musician)
Military
The diary of World War I veteran Arthur Roberts has been noted as an important historical document, for its preservation of the historical record of one of the earliest known Black Scottish soldiers.[10]
Sport
Association football
The British Guiana-born Andrew Watson is widely considered to be the world's first association footballer of Black heritage (his father was White and mother Black) to play at international level.[11][12][13] He was capped three times for Scotland between 1881 and 1882. Watson also played for Queen's Park, the leading Scottish club at the time, and later became their secretary. He led the team to several Scottish Cup wins, thus becoming the first player of Black heritage to win a major competition.[13]
With some brief exceptions, such as Jamaican born
The Scotland national team did not call up a second player of Black heritage until Nigel Quashie (Black Ghanaian father and White English mother), made his debut against Estonia in May 2004. He qualified to play for Scotland, due to having a grandfather from Scotland.[16] Subsequently Coatbridge-born Chris Iwelumo (Black father from Nigeria), has also played for Scotland. Other notable players with black heritage who were born in Scotland, or have represented Scotland, include:
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Other sports
- Joe Ansbro, Rugby
- Sean Crombie, Rugby
- Kieron Achara, Basketball
- Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, Winter Olympic Skier
Miscellaneous
- Ellen More, servant to Margaret Tudor
- Lesley Lokko (architect, academic, and novelist)
- Jessie M Soga (suffragist and singer)
Social and political issues
Discrimination
The group have faced prejudice and racism in Scottish society. In a
In fiction
- "Of Ane Blak-Moir", a poem describing an African woman at the court of James IV of Scotland.
- Tavish Finnegan DeGroot, more well known as the Demoman from Team Fortress 2, is a self-described "black Scottish cyclops".[19]
- Jerome "Chef" McElroy, a character from South Park, hails from Scotland.
- Jim "Jock" McClaren, a character in Porridge.
- Elmo McElroy in The 51st State is a descendant of a relationship between a slave and their owner who is of the McElroy clan; thereby making him the heir to the ancestral estate.
- In 2019, multiple media sourcesJoel Coen's movie adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The film was eventually released in 2021 as The Tragedy of Macbeth.
See also
- Demographics of Scotland
- Black British people
- Black Welsh people
- Black African
- African diaspora
- Spain (surname)
- New Scots
References
- ^ "2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in the United Kingdom". Office for National Statistics. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Statistical Bulletin : 2011 Census: Key Results on Population, Ethnicity, Identity, Language, Religion, Health, Housing and Accommodation in Scotland – Release 2A" (PDF). Scotlandcensus.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
- ^ "Black and Scottish: 'Are you a Protestant Rasta or a Catholic Rasta?'". BBC. 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Analysis of ethnicity in the 2001 Census – Summary report". The Scottish Government. 2004-02-09. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
- ^ "Resident population by ethnic group, 2001". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
- ISBN 978-0815350828.
- ^ Millsom Henry-Waring (2004). Moving beyond Otherness: Exploring the Polyvocal Subjectivities of African Caribbean Women across the United Kingdom (Volume 30 ed.). Hecate.
At the group interviews, a video on Black Scottish Identity was selected as a focal point for discussions, as it questioned the nature of African Caribbean subjectivities in the UK.
- ^ Minna Liinpää' (2018), "Friendly and Welcoming?: Experiencing Nationalism in Scotland", Nationalism from Above and Below: Interrogating 'race', 'ethnicity 'and belonging in post-devolutionary Scotland, University of Glasgow, p. 213,
To some, it's obvious that the two are not mutually exclusive. To others, Black Scottish identity is a contradiction in terms: either you're of this place, Scottish and therefore Scots, or Other, Black.
- ^ Emma Hill (2017), "Mapping whiteness, Somali voices and the spaces of Glasgow City", Somali Voices in Glasgow City: Who Speaks? Who Listens?An Ethnography, Heriot-Watt University: University of Edinburgh, p. 295,
In the meantime, a whiteness-led categorisation of a Somali person as 'Black' would compound their racialised exclusion from Islam and disregard their self-defined racial identity. Under the White gaze in Glasgow City, Somali people were thus subject to 'hailings' that saw them as doubly Other or as partial subjects, and extended the same categorisations to their occupations of public space.
- First World War and died in a care home in Glasgow.
- ^ "First Black footballer, Andrew Watson, inspired British soccer in 1870s". Black History Month. Archived from the original on 2010-06-10.
- ^ "Andrew Watson". 100 Great Black Britons. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ^ a b "Andrew Watson". Football Unites, Racism Divides. Archived from the original on 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- ^ Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research (June 2002). "Black Footballers in Britain – The Late 1980s and After – A 'New Era'?". University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 28 July 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
- ^ "Letters". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "History calls on Quashie". BBC Sport. 2004-05-26. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
- ^ The player has appeared for the Scotland national football team
- African Caribbeanheritage respondents, agreed with the statement that they had 'experienced discrimination in Scotland in the last five years'.
- ^ "Meet the Demoman". Teamfortress.com. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
- ^ Kroll, Justin (28 March 2019). "Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand to Star in Joel Coen's 'Macbeth'". Variety. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- ^ Goldberg, Matt (28 March 2019). "Joel Coen to Direct 'Macbeth' Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand". Collider. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- ^ Colburn, Randall (28 March 2019). "Joel Coen ditches Ethan for Macbeth adaptation starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand". AV Club. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- ^ Guardian Staff (28 March 2019). "Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to star in Joel Coen's Macbeth". Guardian. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- ^ Galloway, Stephen (6 June 2019). "Denzel Washington on Playing 'Macbeth' and His Dream Collaborators". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 5, 2019.