Category: United Kingdom

  • Call for Papers – ‘Skin Tone, “Colourism” and “Passing”’ University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-09-11 Peter Edwards The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of…

  • “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community Political Psychology Published online: 2013-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12020 Caroline Howarth, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology London School of Economics, United Kingdom Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of Psychology Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain…

  • SO224: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity London School of Economics 2013/2014 session Helen Kim The course provides an introduction to theoretical, historical and contemporary debates around race, racism and ethnicity. It firstly explores the main theoretical perspectives which have been used to analyse racial and ethnic relations, in a historical and contemporary framework. It…

  • Belle: Toronto Review The Hollywood Reporter 2013-09-12 John DeFore The true story of a mixed-race child raised by British aristocrats is lightly fictionalized by Amma Asante. TORONTO — Hoping to use some Jane Austen-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th-century English history that is novel enough on its own, Amma Asante’s…

  • Skin pigmentation, biogeographical ancestry and admixture mapping Human Genetics Volume 112, Issue 4 (April 2003) pages 387-399 Mark D. Shriver, Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Esteban J. Parra Department of Anthropology University of Toronto at Mississauga Sonia Dios Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Carolina Bonilla Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Heather Norton…

  • Belle [World Premiere] Toronto International Film Festival 2013 TIFF Bell Lightbox Reitman Square 350 King Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013-09-05 through 2013-09-15 Film Information: Directed by Amma Asante 2013 105 minutes Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido…

  • Being Mixed Race: Am I A Human Rorschach Test? Media Diversity UK: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2013-09-03 Glen Chisholm Just last week I was standing at a bus stop when a gentleman; a complete stranger came and joined me. Nothing unusual about that, we then politely…

  • The Social Evolution of the Term “Half-Caste” in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 26, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 503–526 DOI: 10.1111/johs.12033 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK The term “half-caste” had its origins in nineteenth…

  • Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…

  • The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films) darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture General Issue 10 (2013-07-18) ISSN: 2041-3254 Dhanveer Singh Brar “With deepest gratitude and respect” – If there is a moment when the pieces of Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project fall into place, it is with this closing note.…