Nadya Ali discusses the limits of non-judgemental care and how racism passes as ‘truth-telling’ Read More
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Jess Phillips, Lena Dunham and White Feminism
Why are women of colour still so underrepresented in academia?
Most students are likely to leave university never having encountered a professor of colour, especially a woman, writes Sadiah Qureshi Read More
On being exceptional: the trap of thinking we can do (and be) diversity “differently”
Shana Almeida discusses her research on diversity in Toronto In 2016, BBC Radio 4 officially declared Toronto, Canada to be the most diverse city on earth. According to BBC reporter Ed Davey, Toronto is most diverse because approximately 51% of its population is foreign-born, with over 230 nationalities living there (“WS More or Less: The… Read More
Making sense of connections between racialization and migration
Umut Erel, Karim Murji and Zaki Nahaboo offer three ways of looking at racism and migration Read More
Who gets to be a Lone Wolf? | Dima Nachawi
Artist Dima Nachawi interrogates who has the power to define and categorise in her illustration for #inktober Read More
Byron was a poet, Jay-Z can’t be: academia’s marginalisation of black art
Alex Mason illustrates academia’s marginalisation of black art forms and argues that this relates to lower attainment amongst students of colour in higher education Read More
James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro and the construction of race
Kamaljeet Gill looks at the enduring importance of James Baldwin and his deconstruction of the concept of ‘whiteness’ Read More
‘Anthropology is a white colonialist project’ can’t be the end of the conversation
Ghassan Hage argues that those engaging in anthropological studies need to go further than dismissing parts of the discipline Read More
The Poetics of Fragility: a conversation with writer and filmmaker Lata Mani
Yasmin Gunaratnam talks to Indian historian, writer and filmmaker, Lata Mani Read More
Escaping the harem: postcolonial explorations of Algerian women in art
Barâa Arar explores how Algerian women can emerge ‘mischievous and dancing’ using postcolonial analysis to deconstruct 19th-century portrayals of the imagined harem in art Read More
