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SUMMARY:Lunchtime seminar with Prof Audrey Osler: Where are you from? No\
 , where are you really from?
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DESCRIPTION:MIE Anti-Racist Education Network would like to invite you to
  a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking a
 bout her recently published book 'Where are you from? No\, where are you
  really from?\n\nIn this talk\, Audrey Osler will present and read from 
 her recently published book\, a story of migration\, identity and belong
 ing\, drawing on the stories of people from her own mixed-heritage famil
 y\, over three centuries. \n\nWhether 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 complexitie
 s and contractions of empire. Careless or wilful amnesia has allowed the
  British migration narrative to begin in the mid-twentieth century\, wit
 h migrants from India\, Pakistan and the Caribbean forming the foundatio
 n of present-day multicultural Britain. A racist fixation means that som
 e twenty-first-century Britons fantasise that people of colour arrived a
 fter World War Two\, without any link to the country\, to exploit the Br
 itish welfare state and British hospitality.\n\nFor people of colour the
  questions\, Where are you from? No\, where are you really from? often i
 mply more than simple curiosity. They are political questions of identit
 y\, since the assumption (naive or aggressive) is that to be British and
  to belong you must be white.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A2.7\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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