Race and diversity

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Written and directed by Meena Ayittey (represented globally by Great Guns), the film is based on an original idea from the creative team Christopher Medford. Considers Racial Microagressions and their impact on daily life. Recommended during 2024 race awareness week by the LSE

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It is widely acknowledged that there is an awarding gap in higher education, with proportionally more White students achieving a good honours degree compared to their minoritized ethnic counterparts. Furthermore, the gap is largest between Black and White students, hence necessitating initiatives to understand the perspectives of Black students on perceived reasons for the awarding gap. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the perspectives of Black undergraduate Psychology students through the use of qualitative methodology. Sixteen participants took part in two focus groups, which were transcribed verbatim, and thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. Self-determination theory provided a framework for contextualising the findings. Three main themes emerged, with participants describing being exposed to signals of unbelonging such as negative racial stereotypes and microaggressions. Within this theme, they discussed their responses to these signals of unbelonging, such as conforming to perceived White norms in an effort to belong and feel ‘normal’. Participants also highlighted the role played by parental influence and relationships on their academic experience. They also discussed experiences with university tutors that were deemed unfavourable. Together, the racialised experiences identified threatened the fulfilment of their needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness. It is thus imperative that higher education institutions actively engage their Black and minoritized ethnic students in order to understand their experiences and foster a sense of belonging at university.

Two thirds of Black and minority ethnic people support stronger calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and more compassion for Palestinian people

“Wi Likkle, But Wi Tallawah”: Northampton Town Blacktivism and Matta Fancanta Black Caribbean Youth, 1970-85

20 February 2024

Speaker: Tré Ventour-Griffiths (Kingston University)

This talk ‘Wi Likkle But Wi Tallawah’ – small but sturdy – positions Northampton(shire) as a point of Black consciousness in the town and in the rural, centring the experiences of Black Caribbean youth by birth and descent. First coined in the 1970s, the term Matta Fancanta means “come guard yourself against self-destruction”. Known locally as MFM or Movement, Matta Fancanta defined a generation including through roots reggae, sports teams and professional development. The story of MFM is important as it inspired youth movements in other areas including Leicester, Derby, Manchester and London. This is one story of a wider post-war history of Caribbean Northamptonshire - a history based on 100+ oral history testimonies and limited secondary sources, including local news media, collated as part of a PhD project entitled ‘Northampton(shire) is the Place for Me: Creative Responses to Provincial England's Caribbean Diaspora, 1948-1985’(Opens in new window). This body of research will produce a piece of creative nonfiction about Caribbean communities in my home county, Northamptonshire, where my great-grandparents first arrived in Northampton Town (specifically) in 1962 from the parish of St John, Grenada. Focusing on the experiences of the young people whose parents settled in Northampton from Grenada, Saint Kitts and Jamaica, this talk will highlight the solidarity networks, communal spaces and organised resistance young Black people in Northampton(shire) built in their fight against the discrimination they faced from employers, the police and society at large.

In the talk it is mentioned that Trevor Hall/Ras Jabulani bought out Count Shelly Sound from his uncle Count Shelly. However, it was not only him, but came as a joint effort between Trevor, Dukku and Eddie White.

There are multiple initiatives and efforts to grant African scholars “global visibility” – as part of the decolonisation agenda. These efforts have included aiding and enabling African scholars to publish in journals of international renown, speaking or curating courses at Ivy League universities, and being experts on issues about Africa in international media. Other efforts include collaborations and citations in discourses about Africa. While these efforts and opportunities are intellectually and practically irresistible to a scholar from the subaltern world – as are to those offering and facilitating them – they are actually counterproductive to a decolonisation project. The positive energy they generate obscures the histories and power dynamics that govern so-called global spaces and audiences of knowledge production. Problematically presented as benign and benevolent spaces for participation in the “global knowledge commonwealth,” from which mutual understanding grows, and racism and exploitation could be ended, global spaces/audiences, rather grow out, and are core parts of the revolving doors and constantly mutating infrastructures of colonialist hegemony and control.

Our latest report shows the health service is still falling short in tackling race discrimination. The report argues there is a culture of avoidance, defensiveness, and minimization of racism within NHS trusts. 'Too Hot to Handle?' brings together key learning from: a number of significant tribunal cases; and survey responses from over 1,300 NHS staff to explore how healthcare organisations respond to allegations of racism. In this post you can explore: what the survey says what we think can be

launched in 2006 at the University of Saskatchewan. Its primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia, Aotearoa – New Zealand, and other areas of the world. There are now over 71,000 records many with free full text they include academic article,  archive documents, oral histories and images. All subject areas in social sciences covered

Slavery and British Development

Speakers: Bronwen Everill, Cambridge University, and Jennifer Adam, Bank of England
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

Speakers:

Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin, Professor of International Law & Human Rights and Associate Dean at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr Farah Mihlar, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Policy and Practice, at the Centre for Emergency and Development, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

This event was co-organised with the Minority Rights Solidarity Network (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/schrr/research/minority_rights_solidarity_network)

‘Pour constituer une “Bibliothèque de Littérature Nègre”’: Arthur B. Spingarn, 1930s Haiti, and the black archive