The general election is being held today. I voted by post a while ago so I’ve missed the ritual of going to the polling station and casting a ballot in person. I’m already nervous about the results. I expect that Theresa May will continue to be Prime Minister and that I will continue to feelContinue reading “Decolonizing British history”
Category Archives: Racism
The labour of racialization
For a while, I’ve been making a concerted effort to read more broadly about race in everyday lived experience. I made the decision after reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015). I had an exceptionally powerful and visceral response to this work, partly because I encountered it during a period of immenseContinue reading “The labour of racialization”
Why I describe myself as a historian of ‘displayed peoples’, not ‘human zoos’
My first book Peoples on Parade was published five years ago this month. I will never forget the day that the first copies were delivered. After so many years, having my book in my hands left me utterly overwhelmed. I spent a long time leafing through every page as I absorbed the book’s beautiful reality.Continue reading “Why I describe myself as a historian of ‘displayed peoples’, not ‘human zoos’”
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