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Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times

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Dates:22 October 2024
Times:11:30 - 13:00
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Current University students
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Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, gives the second in a series of lectures organised by the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Abstract:

It is now nearly forty years since Stuart Hall’s seminal 1988 ‘New Ethnicities’ article announced the ‘end of innocence’, or the end of ‘the innocent notion of an essential black subject’. The intervening decades have seen both the fragmentation and re-imagination of racial and ethnic identities, and ongoing racial and ethnic inequalities and exclusions. They have also seen the emergence of new forms of racial exclusion and the resurgence of essentialist forms of identity and resistance. This lecture traces some of these changes and explores some of the contemporary forms of identity politics, and their dangers. In particular it asks: what is the future for racial and ethnic solidarity and how do we find place for hope in treacherous times?

This lecture will take place online. Please register to attend, and a joining link will be sent to you on the day of the event.

Price: Free

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