Category: United Kingdom

  • Dreams of a Life The Arts Desk 2011-12-14 Nick Hasted Carol Morley’s moving documentary brings a dead woman lost in London back to life The decontamination squad scraped the remains of 38-year-old ex-City professional Joyce Vincent from her seat, in front of a TV which had flickered unseen for three years. They took her wrapped…

  • Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 Gresham College 2007-07-02 Mike Phillips, Professor of Music Gresham College George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave, was hailed as a musical prodigy in the eighteenth century. Taught by Haydn, his appearance at the court in Windsor to play in front of George III…

  • CCIG Forum 24: ‘Mixing’/’Non-mixing’? The in/significance of race in mixed raciality, family narratives and welfare practices Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Library Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 2011-12-06, 10:00-17:00Z Keynote speakers: Chantal Badjiie (Editorial Lead on the Mixed Race Season on the BBC, TBC), Petra Nordqvist…

  • Not as simple as black or white The Voice 2011-11-21 Elizabeth Pears How mixed-race Brits are tackling issues surrounding dual heritage LAST MONTH, the UK’s fastest growing ethnic minority, as part of the BBC’s Mixed Britannia series, reignited the debate of what it means to be ‘mixed-race’. Demographers have predicted that Britain’s mixed-race population will…

  • Only Skin Deep? The Harm of Being Born a Different Colour to One’s Parents: A (a minor) and B (a minor) by C (their mother and next friend) v A Health and Social Services Trust [2010] NIQB 108; [2011] NICA 28 Medical Law Review Volume 19, Issue 4 (Autumn 2011) pages 657-668 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwr029 Sally…

  • Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…

  • ‘The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2011) pages 731-745 DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2011.613691 Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy…

  • Acclaimed author reveals secret Scottish roots in moving tribute Daily Record Glasgow, Scotland 2011-05-08 Maggie Barry Sunday Mail Writer Aminatta Forna has been called many things in her life but never Scottish—until today. The African author’s fearless books exposing betrayal and treachery in Sierra Leone have brought critical acclaim and awards. But only now has…

  • Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance Palgrave an (imprint of Macmillan) May 2007 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-1-4039-8640-5, ISBN10: 1-4039-8640-1 Lynette Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Royal Holloway, University of London Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women’s plays and performance since the…

  • Wuthering Heights realises Brontë’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff The Guardian Film Blog 2011-10-21 Tola Onanuga, Freelance Subeditor and Writer At last, Andrea Arnold has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Brontë’s ‘gypsy’ foundling hero Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, will see,…