Against race essentialism
Black identity is a reality, not an idea.
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Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
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Less than a third of ethnic minority women attend cervical screenings
Research shows minority groups in the UK are less likely to take vital cancer and sexual health tests.
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a fixation…
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Why has it taken me so long to form friendships with other women of colour?
There can be more openness between us now. Growing up, we were trying to feign whiteness and scared of being…
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The innocent insidiousness of “Where are you from?”
People of colour are all too familiar with Lady Hussey’s question to Ngozi Fulani.
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“Woke policing” isn’t to blame for rising crime
There are quite a few police officers who could do with being a little more “woke”.
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Rishi Sunak isn’t the UK’s Barack Obama
He doesn’t represent change, hope or success against the odds.
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