(© Eddie Chambers, Destruction of the National Front, 1979-80) We don’t wear our racism out loud in the UK, we see it as very uncouth, quite crass in fact, because that would make us American, and we are not America. We prefer more covert techniques like quizzing someone from where they are really from, digging…
Category: Identity Politics
Can the subaltern speak? Why AHRC needs decolonising
ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD AMOROSINO
Original illustration
Who does the work, whilst white people think about race?
The below piece of writing was originally intended as an email to my academic supervisors, but it is now a reflective essay about the impacts of whiteness within the academic and cultural sector . Dear _____, _______ and ______, I have now entered the last year of my PhD program and my future beholds! During this…
Janine Francois 