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SUMMARY:MIE Anti-Racist Education Network: Where are you from? No\, where
  are you really from?
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DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Prof
 essor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published boo
 k '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 belonging\, drawing on the stories of
  people from her own mixed-heritage family\, over three centuries. \n\nW
 hether 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. C
 areless or wilful amnesia has allowed the British migration narrative to
  begin in the mid-twentieth century\, with migrants from India\, Pakista
 n 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 an
 y link to the country\, to exploit the British welfare state and British
  hospitality.\n\nFor 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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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:EW-A2.7\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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