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  • Why I see myself as a daughter of the Diaspora rather than mixed-race

    Why this ‘mixed’ girl rejects the ‘mixed-race’ label.

  • Who stole all the black women from Britain?

    Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London …Here in the UK, the  visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you…

  • CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium

    CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies University of Leeds 2013-08-08 Peter Edwards, Faculty Web Development Officer Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) held its first interdisciplinary, international postgraduate symposium on the 18th May 2013 entitled…

  • Afro-Rebel (Or Why I am not an Afropolitan)

    Afro-Rebel (Or Why I am not an Afropolitan) Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-07-09 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London The following is from a discussion I recently took part in ‘Fantasy or Reality? Afropolitan Narratives of the 21st Century’…

  • Ultimately though, I identify as a daughter of the Diaspora.

    Ultimately though, I identify as a daughter of the Diaspora. The descendants of the millions of Africans taken to the new world share a similar heritage to mine; black African and white European, and I feel an affinity with these fellow Diasporians. I reject a racist hierarchy of value and worth and refuse to position…

  • The addition of a ‘mixed-race’ category on the census does nothing to challenge the racial hierarchy and this is one of the reasons I reject it.

    While contemporary academic discourse acknowledges the existence of multiple identities, and it is possible to talk about having identities that are both/and rather than either/or (Collins 1990) for a child with one black and one white parent, this is usually restricted to a choice of being both mixed race and black. You can never claim…

  • Being Mixed Race: What are the identity politics of the million-strong ‘Jessica Ennis generation’?

    Being Mixed Race: What are the identity politics of the million-strong ‘Jessica Ennis generation’? Women of the World Festival Southbank Centre 2013-03-06 through 2013-03-10 Sunday, 2013-03-10, 12:00-13:00Z Level 5 Function Room Royal Festival Hall Panelists: Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of…

  • Mixed Race in Britain

    Mixed Race in Britain Kneeshaw Consulting 2013-03-11 In the 2011 census over a million people in the UK classed themselves as ‘mixed race’ – but for some, the label is unhelpful. The identity politics of the ‘Jessica Ennis generation’ was the subject of a workshop at the Women of the World Festival yesterday at London’s…