Edward Ademolu asks if skin bleaching tablets for foetuses in Ghana are any different from embryonic engineering in the west Read More
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Light skin, the antidote to everything wrong with blackness
Competence is European: structural whiteness in the development industry
The development sector sees competence and Europeanness exist at one end of a spectrum, with incompetence and Africanness placed at the other argues Ayesha Fakie Read More
Foster families who ignore race are participating in a pernicious form of racism
Derek Owusu draws on personal experiences to argue that there needs to be more education about the needs of black children when being fostered Read More
When a US passport isn’t enough: travelling as a Nigerian-American
Sola Ayodeji discusses her experiences of border control in the UK, and how easy it can be to lose the privileges of holding a US passport as a person of colour Read More
‘You’re basically white’: my blackness on debate
Sam Kaner experiences of racialization as a person of mixed heritage Read More
‘What’s the word p*ki between friends?’
Ciaran Thapar discusses his experiences of racism and the slur ‘p*ki’ Read More
Faith and Fundamentalism: creating art from uncertainty
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam Two weeks ago I met an artist who hadn’t produced any work since Trump’s election in November. She was in shock, felt helpless and bereft. ‘I just want things to go back to normal,’ she said, ‘and then I can make art again.’ By ‘normal,’ I suspect she meant a return to… Read More
‘Racial self-interest’ is not racism: populist correctness gone mad?
by Rima Saini A UK-based think tank has published a report claiming that the ‘racial self-interest’ of white majorities in the UK and US should be seen as distinct from racism A report published this month by British centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, claims that people of all races in the UK believe that in… 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
