MIE Anti-Racist Education Network: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?
We would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you from? No, where are you really from?
In this talk, Audrey Osler will present and read from her recently published book, a story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from her own mixed-heritage family, over three centuries.
Whether or not we trace our families from beyond the shores of Britain, we deserve a better understanding of our shared past, and opportunities to explore and recognise the complexities and contractions of empire. Careless or wilful amnesia has allowed the British migration narrative to begin in the mid-twentieth century, with migrants from India, Pakistan and the Caribbean forming the foundation of present-day multicultural Britain. A racist fixation means that some twenty-first-century Britons fantasise that people of colour arrived after World War Two, without any link to the country, to exploit the British welfare state and British hospitality.
For people of colour the questions, Where are you from? No, where are you really from? often imply more than simple curiosity. They are political questions of identity, since the assumption (naive or aggressive) is that to be British and to belong you must be white.
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EW-A2.7
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Manchester
