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Political Blackness and the search for multiracial solidarity

Author Black Lives Matter protesters in London, UK – June, 2020. Photo: Joao Daniel Pereira / Shutterstock.com Since mid-March, Adam Habib, the new director of SOAS, University of London, has been on leave while under investigation “in the context of anti-Blackness as a structural issue in SOAS.” SOAS launched the investigation after Habib, a South African man of Indian descent, casually used an anti-Black racial slur during a student meeting in response to a question about accountability for SOAS professors who use the term in class. After being criticized for his own repetition of the term, Habib doubled down, citing his identity as an African man and invoking his history as a former anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa. Yet Habib’s response belies his checkered past of weaponizing identity politics for repressive means. During his tenure as the Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, he frequently invoked his status as an ant

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I m still proud of it : Parminder Nagra on Bend It Like Beckham and pushing the envelope

Despite her credentials, Nagra still regularly finds herself in smaller roles with little room to explore, roles that occasionally border on pigeonholing. Sheâs played numerous doctors, including one in Bird Box, the postapocalyptic horror film starring Sandra Bullock. Nagra was asked to deliver her lines with an Indian accent. âWhy did they make Parminder Nagra have an accent?â asked a journalist on Twitter. âThey let the murdering white guy keep his British accent. Sheâs British too.â Nagra replied: âAsk the powers that be.â She has mixed feelings about Bird Box, which was directed by Susanne Bier, whose most recent drama was The Undoing, starring Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman. âI wasnât thrilled about playing the doctor again,â says Nagra. âBut itâs an amazing piece of work with an amazing director, and itâs Sandra Bullock. Iâd rather not have done the accent. Itâs hard. There are times when doctor rol

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Far from being a leveller, Covid-19 may exacerbate inequalities

Far from being a leveller, Covid-19 may exacerbate inequalities
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The phone call that brought me freedom - but broke my mother s heart

The phone call that brought me freedom - but broke my mother s heart By Kavita Puri image copyrightFarah Sayeed In the 1990s many second-generation British Asians were coming of age and breaking free - they had grown up in a different country from their parents and were forging their own path. For Farah Sayeed, it meant making a difficult phone call which left her mother, Runi, heart-broken. In 1988 Farah Sayeed left her family home in London to study Biology and Psychology in Liverpool. But it wasn t just the lectures she was looking forward to. University was my legitimate ticket to finally getting the freedom that everybody else seemed to be enjoying except me, she says.

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Bombay Jungle: How British South Asians broke into London s club scene

BBC News By Kavita Puri image captionMits Sahni DJ-ing at Bombay Jungle One evening in 1993, Mits Sahni was standing in a queue in Leicester Square in central London. He was trying to get into a nightclub - but when he got to the front of the line he was turned away by the bouncer. It wasn t the first time this had happened. He d tried different approaches - bringing along female friends or wearing smarter clothes. But the result was always the same. The doorman would make up excuse after excuse. And after a while you figured out it was due to racism.

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