UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast
62 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.
Welcome to our podcast highlighting important research and conversations on racism and racialisation, with contributions from academics, activists and cultural practitioners.
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In conversation with Xine Yao
August 30, 2023 15:08 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBGala Rexer welcomes Xine Yao, Associate Professor at UCL and author of Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press, 2021). Reflecting on how Disaffected has travelled as a book, a theory, and a method over the past two years, Xine speaks about what thinking though and with the fields of Black studies, Indigenous studies, Asian diasporic studies, and queer of colour critique does to our understanding of race, gender, and affect, and how...
In conversation with Akwugo Emejulu
July 27, 2023 13:33 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBGala Rexer welcomes Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and author of Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press, 2022). Discussing the figure of the fugitive from a Black feminist perspective, Akwugo addresses questions about solidarity and coalitional work, strategies of counter-storytelling and playing with new forms of writing, and discusses the difficulties of staying in the liminal space of fugitivity as a mode of experimentation, ambivalence, and disidentification...
In conversation with Musab Younis
March 29, 2023 15:53 - 33 minutes - 7.78 MBLuke de Noronha welcomes Musab Younis, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (University of California Press, 2022). Musab traces the themes and arguments of his important new book, which examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. Musab gathers the work of writers and poets, journalists a...
In conversation with Maya Mikdashi
March 13, 2023 15:41 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBGala Rexer welcomes Maya Mikdashi, Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Lecturer in the Middle East Studies Program at Rutgers University, to talk about her book Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (Stanford, 2022). Maya reflects on the multi-disciplinary genealogy of her book, and describes what it means to take different fields (anthropology, gender studies, and Middle East studies) seriously. This conversation also ...
In conversation with Maurice Stierl
January 27, 2023 15:38 - 42 minutes - 9.84 MBLuke de Noronha welcomes Maurice Stierl, researcher at Osnabrück University in Germany and author of Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe (Routledge, 2019). Maurice describes the varied patterns of movement and militarisation at the sea borders of Europe: the Atlantic, Central Mediterranean, Aegean and Channel crossings. In both his intellectual and activist work, Maurice joins those demanding free movement for all and an end to Europe’s border violence. This conversation charts those u...
In conversation with Françoise Vergès
January 16, 2023 15:23 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBGala Rexer welcomes Françoise Vergès, franco-Reunionnese activist, independent curator, and public educator, to talk about her most recent books, A Feminist Theory of Violence (2022), The Wombs of Women. Race, Capital, Feminism (2020,) and A Decolonial Feminism (2019). Françoise discusses how women’s rights have been deployed in the service of the carceral state, and how a decolonial feminism needs to reimagine a collective politics of protection against violence, pollution, and exhaustion ou...
In conversation with Karimah Ashadu
October 12, 2022 11:49 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBKarimah Ashadu joins the SPRC podcast to discuss two of her recent films, Brown Goods (2020) and Plateau (2022), on the labour and labourers that sustain informal economies of waste disposal and tin mining in Germany and Nigeria. Plateau (excerpt), 2021-2022 HD digital film, colour with sound - two channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8oOp-dX6hk courtesy the artist and Fondazione in between Art Film Brown Goods (excerpt), 2020 HD digital film, colour with sound - single channel www....
In conversation with Coretta Phillips
July 27, 2022 12:57 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBCoretta Phillips, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, joins Clive Nwonka for a conversation on race, criminal justice and social policy. Coretta discusses ethnographically capturing both the organic experiences of multi-culture and the more structured and governed forms of multiculturalism taking place within the prison system, her recent work on criminal justice experiences of Gypsy and Traveller communities in England since 1960, and the complacency and the complicity in racist pra...
In conversation with James Doucet-Battle
July 13, 2022 12:57 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBMedical anthropologist, James Doucet-Battle, joins us to talk about his book, Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk and Type 2 Diabetes. Discussing the importance of delinking race from risk in order to tell a more holistic, anthropological story of what it means to be Black, James brings autobiographical elements into his work and explores the relationship between race, gender and ancestry, the mapping of Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cells and his own journey into Black feminist thought. Transcri...
In conversation with Kojo Koram
May 19, 2022 11:30 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBLuke de Noronha welcomes Kojo Koram, Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press, 2022). Discussing his recent book, Kojo addresses questions around 20th century decolonisation, neoliberalism and national sovereignty, tying these threads to today’s spiralling global wealth inequality, accelerating climate crisis, migration and bordering, and the precarity expanding across so many different sectors in our soci...
In conversation with Shakuntala Banaji
April 20, 2022 13:12 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBCo-author of Social Media and Hate, Shakuntala Banaji joins Clive Nwonka to delve into the theoretical and practical intersections of misinformation and online hate speech in contemporary societies. Shakuntala discusses online and offline activism, the intellectual source that inspired her work, and the broader question of media and communication study and its relevance for the analysis of race and racism. Trigger warning: reference to threat of sexual assault and violent imagery (12:45 ...
In conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin
March 16, 2022 13:42 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBClive Nwonka is joined by Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand, a deeply personal and wide-ranging mediation on Black culture, political freedom and humanity. Farah discusses writing with an ethic of care, honouring grace, mercy and beauty, and the relationship between rage and resistance. Farah also reflects on what she sees as the three sites of engagement for African-American and African diasporic studies: in the classroom, in the world, and in the planet. Transcrip...
In conversation with Lisa Lowe
November 24, 2021 13:45 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBLuke de Noronha welcomes Lisa Lowe, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration, to talk about her book, The Intimacies of Four Continents, where she examines links between transatlantic slavery, Asian indenture, imperial trades and colonialism. Concerning liberalism, Lisa discusses how ideas of reason, civilisation and freedom are continually dividing the human according to a coloniality of power or a colonial division of humanities, affirming liberty for European man bu...
In conversation with Laleh Khalili
November 03, 2021 13:17 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBLaleh Khalili,, Professor of International Politics and author of Sinews of War & Trade, joins us for a conversation on land reclamation, dredging and the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of the movement of technologies, capital, people and cargo. Addressing the significant bodies of water around which a politics has taken shape, Laleh discusses the tension of the sea as a romanticised incredible and abstract space, yet also a space of death, exploitation, slavery and colonialism...
In conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
October 20, 2021 13:35 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBAlexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar and poet, joins us to reflect on engaging with the works of Black feminist scholars, ancestral listening and her connectedness to seals. Author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis discusses how colonialism, enslavement and the plantation economy resulted in the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal. Alexis also talks about her forthcoming biography of Audre Lorde and deep diving into Lorde’s life and love of geolo...
In conversation with Nandita Sharma
September 08, 2021 12:10 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBLuke de Noronha welcomes Nandita Sharma, activist scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, to discuss borders, migration and citizenship in relation to the pandemic and climate catastrophes. Nandita addresses the demand for a planetary commons, and the need to live in a worldly space in which the fundamental political foundation is freedom from exclusion, freedom from dispossession and freedom from displacement. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation...
In conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty
August 25, 2021 12:11 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBWe’re joined by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor of History and author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, for a conversation on his intellectual trajectory and the idea of the planetary. Speaking on the climate crisis and the human condition, Dipesh states that “unless we realise our geological agency and the geomorphological role we play that is changing the landscape of the planet, we won’t realise the depth of the predicament that we’re in.” Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-ra...
In conversation with Gracie Mae Bradley
August 11, 2021 12:14 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBLuke de Noronha is joined by Gracie Mae Bradley, policy expert, writer and campaigner, and Interim Director of Liberty. Involved in the wider grassroots movement for social justice in the UK and having written extensively on state racism and civil liberties, Gracie joins us to speak about the state response and policing throughout the pandemic, race disproportionality, and the trend towards pre-criminalisation. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-gracie-ma...
In conversation with Shabaka Hutchings
July 28, 2021 13:51 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBShabaka Hutchings, jazz musician and band leader, joins us to talk about his new album with Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future, delving into transcending from the individual to the collective state, and the healing and spiritual force of music. Discussing his musical influences and progression, Shabaka reflects on how “…being in a metropole makes you think that you understand what culturally is vital in the world, where actually we aren’t in the centre of the world, musically or socially, an...
In conversation with Adam Elliott-Cooper
July 08, 2021 14:20 - 37 minutes - 51 MBAdam Elliott-Cooper joins Luke de Noronha to talk about resistance to racist state violence in Britain, and how this resistance is shaped by histories of imperialism and anti-imperialism. Discussing his book, Black Resistance to British Policing (MUP, 2021), Adam situates current mobilisations in a longer history of anti-racist resistance in the UK, and explores the politics of abolitionism and anti-colonial struggles in the context of Black Britain and Black politics in the 21st century. ...
In conversation with Robbie Shilliam
June 23, 2021 12:07 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBLuke de Noronha welcomes Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss his recent book Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction (Polity Press, 2021). Across his writing, Robbie’s made several critical interventions on questions surrounding race, colonialism and global order, and in Decolonizing Politics he methodologically looks at what it might mean to decolonize political science by reconceptualizing and reimagining the logics of the field. Tr...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 6: People, people, people
May 12, 2021 13:11 - 30 minutes - 22.1 MBOne of the ways in which eugenics became incorporated into mainstream society all around the world was through the birth control movement. Early twentieth-century birth control pioneers like Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger were also ardent eugenicists, and their motives were bound up with imperial concerns about, as eugenicists saw it, the deterioration of the 'white race'. Their arguments were taken up in the cause of another imperialist concern, which was the growing population of non-whi...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 5: Race and space
May 12, 2021 13:09 - 29 minutes - 17.7 MBThe places and spaces we inhabit profoundly affect our lives and how we live them in ways we need to think about more critically. At the launch of the project that is the subject of today's episode, Kamna Patel spoke to how people have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic by saying "It is not who we are and what we eat that will kill us, but where we live and where we work." Subhadra’s guests in this episode came together to write a curriculum to help students and researchers of the built ...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 4: Confronting ableism in eugenics
May 12, 2021 13:08 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBAlong with being inherently racist, eugenics was also an inherently ableist concern. In this episode Subhadra speaks to experts in the field of disability studies to explore the ways in which power delineates difference between people, and how this relates to the much broader structures of our society, as well as how we think and perceive of ourselves. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-what-does-eugenics-mean-us-episode-4 This conversation was recorded on 14th April...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 3: The legacy of Cyril Burt
May 12, 2021 13:07 - 32 minutes - 24.1 MBTwo of the fields where eugenic thinking had an enormous influence, and where some of its legacies continue to hold sway are Psychology and Education Studies. An influential figure in both those fields was a former UCL Professor of Psychology, Sir Cyril Burt. In this episode Subhadra and her guests wade through Burt’s legacy and reflect on how to confront and confound eugenic thinking in both these fields. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-what-does-eugenics-mean-us-...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 2: Curating Heads
May 12, 2021 13:06 - 30 minutes - 21.8 MBThis episode documents and commemorates a collaborative research project at UCL, which brought together geneticists, historians, archaeologists and museum curators to consider how science mediates the dilemma of death. It was called Curating Heads and its scientific aims were to use the latest techniques in Ancient DNA analysis to sequence the genomes of two historic figures at UCL: the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and the archaeologist, William Matthew Flinders Petrie. The exhibition that gre...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 1: The stories we tell are powerful
May 12, 2021 13:06 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBIt has often been argued that eugenicists were not real scientists, but almost all of their ideas were grounded in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scientific discourse. Science is a social and a socialised endeavour. Scientists are people, and their work is embodied in the social and historical contexts in which they live. In this episode, Subhadra speaks to science historians and communicators who are experts in exploring and uncovering the stories around our science. Together t...
Short Takes: We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
April 15, 2021 11:27 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBOur latest Short Takes comes from Ian Sanjay Patel, author of the new book We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (Verso, 2021). This important book provides a global history of post-war migration to the UK, offering fresh insights into the relationship between migration, citizenship and decolonization. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-were-here-because-you-were-there-immigration-and-end-empire Speaker: Ian Sanjay Patel, LSE Fellow in ...
In conversation with Angela Saini
March 31, 2021 11:57 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBPaige Patchin is joined by science journalist, Angela Saini, for a conversation on her book Superior: The Return of Race Science, discussing the resurgence of race science, pseudoscientific racial myths and problematic narratives of human difference. Angela looks at how the changing figure of the Neanderthal is an example of how the circle of humanity can be used as tool of racism in science, and discusses the implications of race science in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This conver...
In conversation with Nicholas De Genova
March 10, 2021 14:16 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBNicholas De Genova joins Luke de Noronha for a conversation about the relationship between bordering, migration and the pandemic, and his current thinking around The Migrant Metropolis. Nicholas discusses why it’s important to think of migrant crises as racial crises, recapturing the subjectivity of migration, and the autonomy of migration as a framework. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-nicholas-de-genova This conversation was recorded on 8th February...
In conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson
February 25, 2021 13:32 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBAs we approach the 40th anniversary of the Black People’s Day of Action march that took place on 2nd March 1981, Paul Gilroy welcomes Linton Kwesi Johnson, poet and activist, to reflect on the events of that day and year, and discuss how we see these patterns repeated in Black life in this country today in the forms of inequality and conflict and demands for truth, right and justice. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-linton-kwesi-johnson This conversati...
In conversation with Les Back
February 18, 2021 10:24 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBLuke de Noronha is joined by Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, to talk about the concept of the ‘metropolitan paradox’, reflecting on how the events of 1981 – the New Cross house fire and the resulting Black People’s Day of Action march – formed his thinking and future academic work. Discussing how the tragedy of Grenfell Tower paralleled that of 1981, Les explores how the demonstrations and silent walks provide a service of hope. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation...
In conversation with Dennis Bovell
February 11, 2021 11:57 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBDennis Bovell, UK reggae pioneer and writer of the hit song Silly Games, joins Paul Gilroy for a conversation about his career as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and more. Dennis discusses not having any musical boundaries, working across reggae to country to afrobeats, and recounts stories of working with Linton Kwesi Johnson, Leroy Smart, Fela Kuti and John Kpiaye. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-dennis-bovell This conversation was...
In conversation with Pragna Patel
February 02, 2021 16:15 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBMaki Kimura (UCL Political Science & UCL Arts and Sciences) is joined by Pragna Patel, director and founding member of Southall Black Sisters. Pragna speaks to us about the feminist and anti-racist roots of Southall Black Sisters, discussing intersectionality and structures of inequality, domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, and how the pandemic has further impacted vulnerable groups such as migrant women. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversatio...
In conversation with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
January 19, 2021 14:03 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBTamar Garb is joined by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma, for a conversation about her work and recent interventions into a very difficult political and social landscape in South Africa. Pumla uses social psychology and psychoanalysis to discuss the ongoing threat and challenge of racism, the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, and the notion of the aesthetic as a site for reparative humanism. Transcript: w...
In conversation with Sindre Bangstad
December 14, 2020 16:10 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBSocial anthropologist, Sindre Bangstad, discusses how local memories have been mobilised in the context of the Norwegian anti-racist movement, addressing the deep racialised grammar of the national imaginary of what Norway is. Exploring examples of right-wing extremism, Sindre reflects on the 2001 murder of Benjamin Hermansen as we approach the 20-year anniversary of his death. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-sindre-bangstad This conversation was reco...
Short Takes: Toward a Global History of White Supremacy
December 02, 2020 13:48 - 20 minutes - 27.5 MBOur latest Short Take is provided by Camilla Schofield, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at UEA. This year, in conjunction with her fellow editors Daniel Geary and Jennifer Sutton, Camilla has produced Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump, an important anthology of writing covering different historical examples and geographical regions. Camilla talks to us about this substantive contribution to the really urgent discussions about whiteness, and the kind of political and scholar...
In conversation with Antonella Bundu
November 25, 2020 15:25 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBPaul Gilroy is joined by Antonella Bundu, Italian activist and council member for a left coalition, for a conversation about the politics of Florence, Italy, and her position within the polity. Antonella discusses Black presence and belonging in the Italian context, fighting for social and civil rights, and the work that still needs to be done for an anti-racist and anti-fascist society. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-antonella-bundu This conversatio...
In conversation with Steve McQueen
November 05, 2020 15:36 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBAward-winning filmmaker, Steve McQueen, joins Paul Gilroy for a conversation on the motivation for his Small Axe film series. McQueen addresses making something that is Black and beautiful in depicting justice and freedom, and how art can give recognition to Black British lives by shoring up “who we are, where we came from and what we contributed to this country”. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-steve-mcqueen This conversation was recorded on 26th Oct...
In conversation with Olivia U. Rutazibwa
October 27, 2020 12:13 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBOlivia U. Rutazibwa, Senior Lecturer in International Development and European Studies, explores rethinking international relations with a critical and anti-colonial perspective. Addressing the tearing down of statues of Leopold II in Belgium, reparations and recognition, and moving away from the language of ‘aid’, Olivia discusses decolonial thought and concepts of dignity, retreat and repair. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-olivia-u-rutazibwa This c...
In conversation with Francio Guadeloupe
October 16, 2020 13:46 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBSocial and cultural anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe joins us for a conversation on understanding the black condition and the racialisation of Muslims within the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean. Addressing the conviviality and creolization of the Kingdom, Francio explains the harmony and struggle that is present and looks at the changing politics of race. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-francio-guadloupe This conversation was recorded on 7th Octo...
In conversation with Gloria Wekker
October 08, 2020 12:19 - 33 minutes - 46 MBGloria Wekker, author of White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, discusses white innocence and colour-blindness in the Netherlands; reflecting on the country’s relationship with colonialism, its lack of discourse about race, and the importance of intergenerational knowledge exchange. Gloria also looks back on her experiences in the US: the moment she learned she was black, how the prom shaped her understanding of intersectionality, and the significance of having a black female pr...
Short Takes: Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of deportation to Jamaica
October 01, 2020 12:17 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MBOur latest Short Takes podcast is provided by Luke de Noronha, author of Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of deportation to Jamaica. “An ethnography of deportation, and therefore an ethnography of separation, absence and exile”, Luke talks us through the motivation for his research and its contribution to our collective understanding and shared struggles. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-deporting-black-britons-portraits-deportation-jamaica Speaker: Luke de Noron...
In conversation with Dorothy E. Roberts
September 09, 2020 12:16 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBAcclaimed scholar of race, gender and law, Dorothy E. Roberts discusses the harm and health inequities produced by structural racism, with race correction in medicine disqualifying black people from specialised care, and evident collaboration of doctors and lawyers in promoting juridical ideas about race. Addressing a violent policing system that can be traced back to slave patrols and black codes, Dorothy also explains the need for abolition of the entire policing apparatus in the US. Tran...
In conversation with Jacob Dlamini
August 27, 2020 12:15 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBTamar Garb welcomes Jacob Dlamini for a conversation on the limitations of racialisations and categorisations, the problematic ethnicising of blackness, and understanding the centrality of race while also understanding that race doesn't explain everything. Jacob speaks on his work exploring the role of collaborators during apartheid, and how the traumas of the children of collaborators is important to the context of the traumas of South Africa’s past. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racial...
In conversation with Gail Lewis
August 18, 2020 12:14 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBGail Lewis, psychotherapist and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, joins us for a conversation on Britain’s racial formation; speaking across the generational lines; and how music captures life and sustains us. Gail offers her psychoanalysis on black lives ‘mattering’ and how “being present to the aliveness, and the moments of deadening, and the moments of possibility, even in silence, really teaches you something about being ‘with’.” Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-co...
In conversation with George the Poet
August 11, 2020 12:12 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBPaul Gilroy is joined by George the Poet, for a conversation on poetry, podcasting and storytelling; looking at how hybridity and sociological thought have impacted George’s process of intuition and priorities in advocating for his community. George also discusses how, moving forward, these priorities are evolving around communication systems, value creation and academia. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-george-poet This conversation was recorded on 9t...
Short Takes: An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery)
August 05, 2020 12:11 - 10 minutes - 14 MBOur latest Short Take is provided by Marlene L. Daut, Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the Woodson Institute, historian of Haiti, and an important voice in the burgeoning historical archive of neglected political and cultural dynamics of the Haitian revolution. Here Marlene talks to us about a forthcoming anthology she has co-edited with Grégory Pierrot and Marion Rohrleitner, titled An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery). Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-ra...
In conversation with David Theo Goldberg
July 29, 2020 12:10 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBDavid Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, offers his insight about the state of critical thinking around race and racism, and the effacement of historicality in favour of presentism; and responds to the sanction of comparativisms and relationalities as “racism anywhere is not possible to be upheld without racisms elsewhere”. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-david-theo-goldberg This conversation was r...
In conversation with Courtenay Griffiths QC
July 22, 2020 12:09 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBPaul Gilroy is joined by Courtenay Griffiths QC, distinguished criminal defence advocate with 40 years of experience, for a conversation on racism within the criminal justice system and its disproportionate effect on black people, and the need to confront patterns of criminalisation, the hierarchy within institutions and reforming education in relation to this. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-courtenay-griffiths-qc This conversation was recorded on 24...