Tag: The Spectator

  • Bennett’s compelling novel explores the fraught subject of what it means to ‘pass for white’ in a black community

  • “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race” by Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed

  • I do wonder, speaking as a mixed-race girl myself, does this acceptance of colour into one of the world’s oldest monarchies mean that brown people have finally been acknowledged as being an integral part of the fabric of modern society?

  • Britain’s black history has been shamefully whitewashed The Spectator 2017-01-14 Hakim Adi, Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom Author David Olusoga (Photo: Getty) I have been researching and writing about black British history for over 30 years but never before have I been…

  • The ‘anti-racist’ crowd have resorted to the old politics of racism The Spectator 2016-03-07 Brendan O’Neill The self-important slayers of ‘cultural appropriation’ have gone too far this time. Clearly they didn’t get a big-enough moral kick from chastising white people who do yoga (on the basis that yoga has ‘roots in Indian culture’), moaning about…

  • What is ‘post-racial’? The Spectator Seattle University 2011-02-16 Frances Dinger Since Barack Obama became the first black president in 2008, the word “post-racial” has been liberally used by some media groups. We are, according to some, at a point in our country’s history when we can be past race but minorities are still incarcerated at…