Being Brown in a Black and White World: Conversations for Leaders about Race, Racism and Belonging

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BB: How are you holding up with the COVID-19 pandemic on top of all of this, as the underscore to all of this?

Humanities are essential for teaching critical thinking, communication and ethics, says Arts Emergency chief executive Neil Griffiths. Muslims and people of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Arab descent have often faced violence, hate crimes, intimidation, and vandalism by fellow citizens. I want to share my family’s small part in this larger story, to demonstrate how, even in just one household, empire has inscribed itself onto our lives; defining our personal choices (and the lack of), and casting a long shadow into the post-colonial era. Similarly, Clement Atlee, the Labour prime minister who oversaw the formation of the NHS, was a staunch defender of the Commonwealth, as he expounded in his 1960 Chichele Lectures at Oxford University, entitled “Empire into Commonwealth”. I want to start because when we talk about the pandemic, when we talk about what’s happening right now in the world with a rebellion, the protest, you wrote an article that went up on The Atlantic this morning.

Source material in humanities is incredibly subjective in a way it can’t be with subjects such as maths or science,” he says.

Devote more resources to helping targets of racial profiling get access to justice and to hold perpetrators accountable. Militarization underscores and intensifies the occupying, repressive role police play in hyperpoliced communities like Ferguson. sorry, it’s already gone…” This was not an isolated incident, and when a pattern forms, and all other factors are taken away- the result is simple, it’s race.

Some universities have focused master’s – Goldsmiths now offers master’s in black British history and black British writing, Birmingham City is preparing for its first intake on a new black studies MA, and Bristol University has appointed a black history professor to explore the city’s historic links with slavery. During those post-election months, I found myself seeking out folks of color in an unprecedented way and craved spaces without white folks.