Anti-Black racism and the hostile environment have a long history. For Tré Ventour Griffiths, the interwar years of 1919-1938 deserve more recognition in how we understand British history. Following heightened discussions about anti-racism in the summer of 2020, I found it challenging that popular media stayed rooted in Windrush as the starting point of anti-Black… Read More
↧
Black British histories didn’t start in 1948
↧
Bend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism
Assessing Bend It Like Beckham in the social and political context of Blairism, Sacha Ismail considers the Gate Gourmet industrial dispute at Heathrow and union bureaucracies’ longstanding failure to fight for workers, particularly black, brown and migrant workers I must have watched Bend It Like Beckham a dozen times – most recently on the twentieth… Read More
↧
↧
How British were the Caribbean soldiers of the First World War?
During Black History Month 2018, Samuel Ali challenges the idea that African and Caribbean soldiers served to support British troops, not as British troops in WW1 Read More
↧