Category: United Kingdom

  • Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policing The Guardian 2015-06-07 Damien Gayle, Live Desk Reporter Carole Duggan, Duggan’s aunt, said her family had ‘ample evidence’ that police had misled an inquest into his death. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian Campaigners say there are deep problems with Operation Trident, which investigates gun…

  • Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one’s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial…

  • University of Salford installs new Chancellor, Professor Jackie Kay MBE University of Salford Salford, United Kingdom Friday, 2015-05-01 The University celebrated the official installation of it’s sixth Chancellor, renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay MBE, at a grand ceremony in Peel Hall on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated in a ceremony…

  • University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2015-05-09 Charlotte Dobson, Social Affairs Reporter Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford Professor Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer Jeanette Winterson…

  • Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”

  • Negotiating Mixed Ethnicity/Heritage Relationships Seminar Coventry University Centre for Communities & Social Justice Room 152, Jaguar Building Coventry, United Kingdom Wednesday, 2015-06-24, 09:45-15:15 BST (Local Time) Historically, debates about ‘mixed race’ families have centred on Black/White relations concerning issues of identity, belonging and racism affecting the partner and their children. Though these issues have not…

  • Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race The Cambridge Student University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2015-04-25 Chase Caldwell Smith In my life, I have been told many things – that I “look like a bit of a foreigner” or that “I couldn’t tell you were part-Asian before – I can definitely see…

  • Bigots beware – you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain The Guardian 2015-04-26 Hugh Muir The makeup of Britain is changing. Anyone who thinks they can get away with casual racism is making a big mistake The Runnymede Trust’s report on Race and Elections tells us that one of the groups least likely…

  • Today it’s taken for granted that people of all ethnic groups should be treated equally in the armed forces and elsewhere. But as Leslie Gordon Goffe writes, during World War One black officers in the British armed forces faced a system with prejudice at its core.

  • Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241) University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 2015-02-08 Taking as its point of departure the landmark special issue of Survey Graphic that announced the arrival on the artistic scene of the “New Negro” (1925), this module provides a historical survey of African American writing, 1925 to present.…