Category: United Kingdom

  • Afrofuturism’s Others Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1 9TG Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Deluxe 2004–5 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each Tate Photography © Tate Ellen Gallagher’s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence…

  • Arthur Wharton: The first Black Footballer BBC Tyne Culture October 2003 BBC Over 100 years before Dyer, Jenas and Ameobi, the North East had the UK’s first professional black League player. Meet the legendary Arthur Wharton. Arthur Wharton was born on 28 October 1865 in Accra, formerly the Gold Coast, now capital of Ghana, West…

  • Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972) University of Warwick Coventry, England Spring 2013 Rebecca Earle, Professor of History This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic mixing, and often come…

  • Mixed Race Studies Mixed Race Family 2013-05-18 Elizabeth White For global people who are mixed race, belong to a mixed race family, are starting a mixed race family or who are from the global human race and are interested in learning more about the experiences of global mixed race families. Today I’m off to Leeds…

  • Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America’s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart. I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I’d make a £2 monthly donation for…

  • Ellen Gallagher: AxME Tate Modern: Exhibition Bankside London SE1 9TG 2013-05-01 through 2013-09-01 Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists to have emerged from North America since the mid-1990s. Her gorgeously intricate and highly imaginative works are realised with a wealth of virtuoso detail and wit. This is her first major solo…

  • Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) University of Leeds 2013-05-18, 08:45-17:15 BST (Local Time) Key note speakers: Dr. Suki Ali is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, theories of identity and…

  • Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…

  • In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…

  • Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’ The Guardian 2013-05-12 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor The American academic and firebrand campaigner talks about Britain’s deep trouble, fighting white supremacy and where Obama is going wrong Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule…