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SUMMARY:"At Least We Don't Do That Here." How Europe (Mis)Understands Bla
 ck America (Gary Younge)
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DESCRIPTION:This talk\, from Professor of Sociology\, Gary Younge\, marks
  the opening of the British Sociological Association's 70th Anniversary 
 Annual Conference\, and it is open to all. \n\nBritain's views on Black 
 America are informed by a range of contradictory tendencies: amnesia abo
 ut its own colonial past\, ambivalence about its racial present\, a trad
 ition of anti-racism and international solidarity and an often fraught g
 eo-political relationship with the United States itself. From the vantag
 e point of a post-colonial nation that both resents and covets American 
 power\, and is in little position to do anything about it\, African Amer
 icans represent to many in Europe a redemptive force – living proof that
  that US is both not all that it claims to be and could be so much great
 er than it is. This sense of superiority is made possible\, in no small 
 part\, by a woefully\, wilfully incomplete and toxically nostalgic of ou
 r own colonial history which has left significant room for denial\, dist
 ortion\, ignorance and sophistry. The result\, in the post-war era\, has
  been moments of solidarity often impaired by exocitisation or infantili
 sation in which Britain has found it easier to export anti-racism across
  the Atlantic than to practice it at home or export it across the Channe
 l\, the Mediterranean and beyond.\n\nThis public lecture is free of char
 ge\, however\, registration is required.  Places are limited and we do r
 ecommend booking at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
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LOCATION:Online - see details on this page for registration.
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