Tag: England

  • Dreams of my mother… One Love, One London 2015-01-04 Tony Thomas It’s October 1959; Paddington station is busy… Scanning the departures board for her train a nervous looking woman hurries towards the platform. In one hand she carries a suitcase and holding her other hand tightly is a pretty 2 year old; a mixed race…

  • Beyond the ‘Race’ Concept: The Reproduction of Racism in England Sydney Studies in Society and Culture Volume 4 (1988) pages 7-31 Robert Miles, Associate Dean of Study Abroad and International Exchanges College of Arts and Sciences University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Large numbers of people continue for long periods of time to cling to myth,…

  • We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…

  • Gillian Wearing redefines Birmingham for the 21st century The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-10-31 Bernadette McNulty, Music Editor and Arts Writer Gillian Wearing’s A Real Birmingham Family Photo: Courtesy of Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England and Ikon With her statue of a mixed-race, single-parent family, Gillian Wearing has transformed Birmingham’s city centre, says Bernadette…

  • Miranda Kaufmann Lecture ‘Africans in Port Towns – 1500-1640’ University of Greenwich Queen Anne 180 – Greenwich Campus Greenwich, England Wednesday, 2014-10-15, 18:00-19:00 BST (Local Time) Dr. Miranda Kaufmann will explore the lives of Africans in 16th and 17th century England and Scotland’s port towns, explaining how they arrived in Britain and how they were…

  • Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the ‘mixed’ ethnic or racial group Journal of Epidemiolgy and Community Health Volume 64, Issue 6 (2010) Pages 557-560 DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.088294 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, United Kingdom Background: The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions…

  • 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…

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 25, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 777-780 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2013.0025 Nicole N. Aljoe, Assistant Professor of English Northeastern University Sarah Salih, Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present…

  • Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe Duke University Press 2012 256 pages 118 photographs, 10 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5074-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5056-9 Tina M. Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of…

  • Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset Dorset Echo Weymouth, Dorset, England 2013-06-12 James Tourgout A NEW exhibition is highlighting the stories of black soldiers in Dorset during World War Two. It explores the lives of African American servicemen who headed to Dorset to train for D-Day and is showing at Weymouth library…