Artist Dima Nachawi interrogates who has the power to define and categorise in her illustration for #inktober Read More
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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
Dominic Ongwen: The abducted child soldier tried for crimes against humanity
by Karen Williams Uganda’s government recently announced that it has ended the manhunt for the leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony. At its height, the group wreaked havoc in northern Uganda, before dispersing across central Africa in recent years. It continues to attack civilians in the Central African Republic and the Democratic… Read More
Fleshing Out a Narrative of Illness: Notes on the Flesh
by Shahd Alshammari I was slowly getting worse. The numbness escalated and was starting to resemble paralysis. My most terrifying moment was the minute I looked in the mirror, found that my curls were rebelling even more than the usual, and I was unable to tame them. Brushing my hair was no longer an option. My… Read More
Stories of migration and exile: in conversation with writer Olumide Popoola
by Yasmin Gunaratnam “Calculate is angry because all of his things were stolen in Puglia. He has nothing but his good English. He went to the police…He didn’t think. Next thing he was standing in a police station and someone wanted to fingerprint him. But you can’t get fingerprinted there. Unless you want to stay.… Read More
Diversity initiatives don’t work, they just make things worse: the ideological function of diversity in the cultural industries
by Anamik Saha edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam Dev Patel might have won the award for Best Supporting Actor (that’s Dev Patel and not Riz Ahmed, Burberry), but when the nominees for the 2017 BAFTA Awards were announced, the lack of racial (and class) diversity amongst the nominees felt wearingly inevitable. What is more troubling is how… Read More
