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  • In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race

    In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race The Guardian 2007-07-11 Timothy Garton Ash By its own definition it is a mixed country, but extreme poverty and violence occur mainly at one end of the spectrum Some time ago, Brazil’s census takers asked people to describe their skin colour.…

  • Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life

    Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life The Guardian 2012-04-07 Tim Adams, Staff Writer Director Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation – even after death In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald was working in Uganda on…

  • Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on

    Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on The Guardian 2012-03-13 Gary Younge What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn’t Cultures do…

  • Racism and skin colour: the many shades of prejudice

    Racism and skin colour: the many shades of prejudice The Guardian 2011-10-04 Bim Adewunmi Deeply entrenched attitudes towards colour, and the increasing promotion of skin-lightening products, are placing a ‘horrible burden’ on dark-skinned women Next week, at the international black film festival in Nashville, Bill Duke and D Channsin Berry will premiere their new documentary,…

  • Were the riots about race?

    Were the riots about race? The Guardian 2011-12-08 Reading the Riots: Investigating England’s summer of disorder In partnership with the London School of Economics Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Yemisi Adegoke, Freelance Journalist Some commentators were quick to call them ‘race riots’, but the true…

  • My hero: Audre Lorde by Jackie Kay

    Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.

  • Wuthering Heights realises Brontë’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff

    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,…

  • Beware this new mixed-race love-in

    Beware this new mixed-race love-in The Guardian 2011-10-04 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor I’m glad that attitudes to mixed-race people have changed. But does it all mask a subtler kind of racism? Why does everyone want to be like me? According to scientific research (yes, really) I’m not only more beautiful than, but also biologically…

  • Mixed race Britain: charting the social history

    Mixed race Britain: charting the social history The Guardian 2011-10-04 Laura Smith While mixed race is one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the UK, there is nothing new in people from different cultures getting together Olive was just 15 when she met the man who was to become her husband. It was 1930s Cardiff…

  • Black and white twins

    Black and white twins The Guardian 2011-09-23 Joanna Moorhead James and Daniel are twins. What sets them apart is that one is white and one is black—and the differences don’t end there, as Joanna Moorhead discovers The two teenage boys sitting on the sofa opposite are different in almost every way. On the left is…