It has often been argued that eugenicists were not real scientists, but almost all of their ideas were grounded in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scientific discourse. Science is a social and a socialised endeavour. Scientists are people, and their work is embodied in the social and historical contexts in which they live. In this episode, Subhadra speaks to science historians and communicators who are experts in exploring and uncovering the stories around our science. Together they look at how eugenic thinking can be perpetuated, but also confronted by the stories we tell.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-what-does-eugenics-mean-us-episode-1

This conversation was recorded on 23rd March 2021

Host: Subhadra Das, Critical Eugenics Researcher, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre

Guests: Chiara Ambrosio, Associate Professor in History and Philosophy of Science in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, with a special focus on the history of art and science. Chiara is one of the co-founders of Muso at IMPROPERA, the improvised opera production inspired by objects from science museums.

Emily Dawson is Associate Professor in Science Communication at UCL Science and Technology Studies. She was awarded The Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2020 for her work on the sociology of science and education, getting people to talk across the science/non-science disciplinary divide. Emily is the author of 'Equity, Exclusion & Everyday Science Learning', which was published by Routledge in 2019.

Rokia Ballo is part of the team who run Science London, a volunteer-led organization dedicated to training and enabling scientists and science communicators to employ equitable practise within their work. Science London have been nominated for the National Diversity Awards 2021.

Angela Saini is an award-winning writer, science journalist and broadcaster whose two most recent books tackle and challenge the inbuilt inequalities in the life sciences. In 'Inferior', she looked at the science of gender, and in 'Superior', she looked at the science of race.

Producer: Cerys Bradley
Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 1: The stories we tell are powerful

Two of the fields where eugenic thinking had an enormous influence, and where some of its legacies continue to hold sway are Psychology and Education Studies. An influential figure in both those fields was a former UCL Professor of Psychology, Sir Cyril Burt. In this episode Subhadra and her guests wade through Burt’s legacy and reflect on how to confront and confound eugenic thinking in both these fields.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-what-does-eugenics-mean-us-episode-3

This conversation was recorded on 31st March 2021

Host: Subhadra Das, Critical Eugenics Researcher, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre

Guests: If you believe what you read on Twitter, Jack Bicker is just another millennial philosopher. By day, though, he is Senior Teaching Fellow in Philosophy and Education Studies at UCL's Institute of Education, where his work encompasses critical theory, aspects of political philosophy, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology.

Peter Fonagy is an award-winning psychologist and academic whose research centres on issues of early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder and violence. Among many other roles, he is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in London and also Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL.

Lasana Harris is Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at UCL. He is one of the brains behind the Unstereotype Experiment, which explored how increasing empathy in marketing professionals could increase creative and inclusive thinking, and his research at UCL examines the many different aspects of how we as humans perceive things and each other.

Producer: Cerys Bradley
Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 3: The legacy of Cyril Burt

One of the ways in which eugenics became incorporated into mainstream society all around the world was through the birth control movement. Early twentieth-century birth control pioneers like Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger were also ardent eugenicists, and their motives were bound up with imperial concerns about, as eugenicists saw it, the deterioration of the 'white race'. Their arguments were taken up in the cause of another imperialist concern, which was the growing population of non-white people in the colonies. In this episode, Subhadra and her guests consider how we can confront historical and contemporary eugenics practices in the continuing struggle for reproductive justice.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-what-does-eugenics-mean-us-episode-6

This conversation was recorded on 22nd April 2021

Host: Subhadra Das, Critical Eugenics Researcher, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre

Guests: Kate Law is a feminist historian who specialises in twentieth-century Southern African history. She is currently a Nottingham Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Nottingham, and a Research Fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State. Her first book, 'Gendering the Settler State: White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980' was published by Routledge in 2016, and her current research project is 'Fighting Fertility: The British Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Politics of Race and Contraception in South Africa'.

Kalpana Wilson is a Lecturer in Geography and her research explores questions of race/gender, labour, neoliberalism, and reproductive rights and justice, with a particular focus on South Asia and its diasporas. She is the author of 'Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice' (Zed Books, 2012) and has published widely on race, gender, international development, women’s agency and rural labour movements.

Paige Patchin is a Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies, and one of the founding lecturers at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre. Paige is a feminist geographer whose work looks at structures of power in biological, health, and earth sciences. Her research interests include infectious disease, race, and empire, genetics and epigenetics, reproductive health, and the Anthropocene. Her current book project looks at the Zika public health emergency between Puerto Rico and the United States.

Producer: Cerys Bradley
Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 6: People, people, people

Luke de Noronha welcomes Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss his recent book 'Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction' (Polity Press, 2021). Across his writing, Robbie’s made several critical interventions on questions surrounding race, colonialism and global order, and in 'Decolonizing Politics' he methodologically looks at what it might mean to decolonize political science by reconceptualizing and reimagining the logics of the field.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-robbie-shilliam

This conversation was recorded on 17th May 2021

Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre  //  Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University
Producer: Kaissa Karhu
Editor: Amie Liebowitz

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SPRC In conversation with Robbie Shilliam

We’re joined by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor of History and author of 'The Climate of History in a Planetary Age', for a conversation on his intellectual trajectory and the idea of the planetary. Speaking on the climate crisis and the human condition, Dipesh states that “unless we realise our geological agency and the geomorphological role we play that is changing the landscape of the planet, we won’t realise the depth of the predicament that we’re in.”

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-dipesh-chakrabarty 

This conversation was recorded on 13th June 2021

Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre  //  Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago
Producer: Kaissa Karhu
Editors: Amie Liebowitz

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SPRC In conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty

Luke de Noronha welcomes Lisa Lowe, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration, to talk about her book, The Intimacies of Four Continents, where she examines links between transatlantic slavery, Asian indenture, imperial trades and colonialism. Concerning liberalism, Lisa discusses how ideas of reason, civilisation and freedom are continually dividing the human according to a coloniality of power or a colonial division of humanities, affirming liberty for European man but subordinating the colonised and disposed. 

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-lisa-lowe

This conversation was recorded on 19th July 2021

Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre  //  Lisa Lowe, Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Director of American Studies Graduate Studies at Yale University
Producer: Kaissa Karhu
Editors: Kaissa Karhu and Anita Langary 

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SPRC In conversation with Lisa Lowe

Co-author of Social Media and Hate, Shakuntala Banaji joins Clive Nwonka to delve into the theoretical and practical intersections of misinformation and online hate speech in contemporary societies. Shakuntala discusses online and offline activism, the intellectual source that inspired her work, and the broader question of media and communication study and its relevance for the analysis of race and racism.

Trigger warning: reference to threat of sexual assault and violent imagery (12:45 – 13:05)

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-shakuntala-banaji

This conversation was recorded on 15th March 2022

Speakers: Clive Nwonka, Lecturer in Film, Culture and Society at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies  //  Shakuntala Banaji, Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change at LSE
Producer: Kaissa Karhu
Editors: Amie Liebowitz and Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Shakuntala Banaji

Gala Rexer welcomes Françoise Vergès, franco-Reunionnese activist, independent curator, and public educator, to talk about her most recent books, A Feminist Theory of Violence (2022), The Wombs of Women. Race, Capital, Feminism (2020,) and A Decolonial Feminism (2019).

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcripts/transcript-conversation-francoise-verges

This conversation was recorded on 25th October 2022.

Speakers: Gala Rexer, postdoctoral fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Françoise Vergès, political scientist, historian, film producer, independent curator, activist and public educator.  
Producer:  Julia Thomas and Lucy Stagg 
Editors: Amie Liebowitz and Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Françoise Vergès

Clive Chijioke Nwonka is joined by George the Poet. George is a spoken word artist, poet, rapper, podcast host and author, who has gained a following of over millions through his commentary and creative work addressing systemic injustice in the UK. Here, we discuss his latest book, Track Record, a fascinating memoir in intellectual exploration of race, belonging, music and injustice. Throughout this podcast, they’ll be discussing George’s latest book, its themes, their shared experiences growing up in North West London, and some of the ideas that formed and shaped George’s writing and intellectual work.

SPRC In conversation with George the Poet

In this episode, Awa and Lavin discuss diasporic consciousness, focusing on the themes of belonging, identity, and home. Drawing on their experiences and reflecting on Warsan Shire's poem "Home," they explore what it means to feel at home.

Diaspora Diaries Episode 2: Diasporic Consciousness

In this episode, Awa and Jade discuss their experiences navigating morality and dealing with tensions and contradictions in their personal and professional lives. They explore the challenges of addressing systems of oppressions within their families and friendships, and break down what it means to study or work in spaces that uphold these structures. Together, they  look into the importance of staying true to oneself, pushing beyond comfort zones, and finding a balance between personal and professional ethics.

Diaspora Diaries Episode 5: Sitting with Morality and Contradictions

In this Short Takes, Luke reads the preface to the paperback edition of Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica, published with Manchester University Press in June 2025.

Short Takes: Deporting Black Britons – 5 Years On

Discussion of Luke’s research and why thinking about movement and bordering allows us understand emerging machineries of (perhaps) racialised violence.

Speakers:
Luke de Noronha, Paige Patchin, Gargi Bhattacharyya

SPRC In Conversation: Movement, bodies and the question of race-making

Discussion of Paige’s research on questions of health, racism and why we must learn to understand the languages of the biological and the pharmaceutical if we are to grasp emerging technologies of racialisation.

Speakers:
Paige Patchin, Luke de Noronha, Gargi Bhattacharyya

SPRC In Conversation: The politics of health in a time of climate crisis

Discussion of Gargi’s research and the new module designed to open conversations about how we might understand the interplay between global politics and the global economy in this moment of rapid realignment.

Speakers:
Gargi Bhattacharyya, Paige Patchin, Luke de Noronha

SPRC In Conversation: Geopolitics, catastrophe and trying to comprehend the world

Stephanie discusses the valorisation of cultural heritage within the African diaspora, noting a shift in societal perception post-2020. She highlights the commodification of cultural pride by businesses and the rise of Afrobeats and other African music globally. Stephanie references the reinterpretation of cultural symbols like the Union Jack and the importance of authenticity in branding. Stephanie emphasises the fluidity of culture and the need to resist simplistic representations, concluding with her personal embrace of cultural heritage through wearing cornrows.

Diaspora Diaries Episode 6 - African is Cool: Valorising Cultural Heritage

In this episode, Ellen and Awa discuss European identity building and memory politics, highlighting how national narratives shape collective memory. They emphasise the selective remembrance of historical events, and its impact on national identities. Together, they examine the silencing of racialised people’s histories and experiences within discourse on national identity and how this, in turn, plays a role in the rise of xenophobia and far-right ideologies.

Diaspora Diaries Episode 7 - Memory Politics and Collective Identities

In this podcast, Subhadra Das answers ten questions on ten lies that make up Western Civilisation. The conversation covers looting, the value of art, the history of statistics, remaking public history, repatriating stolen objects, and what museums and institutions could be doing with their zombies.
Subhadra Das is a writer, historian, broadcaster and comedian who looks at the relationship between science and society. She specialises in the history and philosophy of science, particularly the history of scientific racism and eugenics. For nine years she was Curator of the Science Collections at University College London. She has written and presented podcasts and stand-up comedy shows, curated museum exhibitions, and has appeared on radio and TV. She is now working on a book about the golden age of detective fiction and the history of eugenics.
Lara Choksey is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures at UCL English, and Associate Faculty at the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre.


SPRC In conversation with Subhadra Das: Ten Lies, Ten Questions

In this podcast, Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka talks to the Guardian journalist Lanre Bakare about his new book, 'We Were There: How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain'.

Lanre Bakare was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He is a correspondent covering arts and culture for the Guardian, where his writing focuses on the intersection of art, race and culture across multiple disciplines. He was senior correspondent on the award-winning Cotton Capital project and has worked in New York and Los Angeles as part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guardian US team. Lanre is the author of the book We Were There: How Black culture, resistance and community shaped modern Britain. This book explores a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – and crucially, the one that exists beyond London.

Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka is Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society at UCL, and a Faculty Associate of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.

This conversation was recorded in August 2025

Speakers: Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka and Lanre Bakare
Producer:Trisha Hart
Editor: Amie Liebowitz

SPRC In Conversation with Lanre Bakare

Gala Rexer talks to Edna Bonhomme, culture writer, historian of science, journalist, and author of “A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19” (2025). The conversation covers theoretical and methodological questions about the relationship between confinement and disease, Edna’s anti/inter-disciplinary approach to writing, health and illness in literature, and how the intersectional fight for prison abolition relates to struggles for health equality. 

This conversation was recorded in June 2025

Speakers: Dr Gala Rexer, Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Warwick and Honorary Research Fellow at the SPRC // Dr Edna Bonhomme 
Producer:  Gala Rexer and Trisha Hart
Editors:  James Fox


SPRC In Conversation with Edna Bonhomme

The Portuguese ship Arrogante was captured in late November 1837 by the HMS Snake, off the coast of Cuba. At the time of her capture, the Arrogante had more than 330 Africans on board. All of them were liberated soon after the vessel reached Montego Bay, Jamaica. Soon after their arrival, a chilling mystery surrounding the alleged practices carried out by her captain and crew ...

UCL Americas seminar: White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Case of the 'Arrogante'

Many medieval and early modern Jewish calendars were based on the assumption that the calendar repeats itself exactly after 247 years. This lecture sketches the history of the 247-year calendar cycle based on evidence provided by a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern manuscripts from different geo-cultural areas.

Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Reiterative calendars in medieval and early modern Jewish manuscripts - Nadia Vidro

ANNI ALBERS AND THE MODERNIST TEXTILE
26-27 January 2019
University College London
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DAY 1
1. Briony Fer, Introduction
2. Grant Watson, Bauhaus Imaginista: Learning From
3. Tanya Harrod, ‘the living texture’: British women weavers and modern textiles in the 1920s and 1930s
4. Gabriela García de Cortázar, Andean Anni, or what to do in Chile when you are not ill
5. Ana Elena Mallet, Modernist Women and Mexico as inspiration. Anni Albers + Clara Porset + Cynthia Sargent
6. Lynne Cooke, Lineage and Legacy
7. David Batchelor, The psychogeometry of triangular repeats
8. Tom McDonough, Knots and the fabric of architecture
9. Caroline Arscott, Morris: Weaving as Prophecy
10. Rye Holmboe, Anna Freud's Loom
11. Briony Fer in conversation with Helen Molesworth
12. Giulia Smith, Mary Martin’s Textiles
13. Cadence Kinsey, In formation: pattern, code and being
DAY 2
14. Briony Fer, Samples, experiments, prototypes
15. Karis Medina, Warp Families: The common threads of Anni Albers’s Pictorial Weavings
16. Mona Schieren, Transcultural Entanglements in Lenore Tawney’s Fiber Art
17. Marta Zboralska, 'As organic as nature itself': Władysław Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro’s Bauhaus
18. Meret Kaufmann, Pattern is a teacher
19. Freya Field-Donovan, Albers and Deren

This project was made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Karis Medina - Warp Families: The Common Threads of Anni Albers's Pictorial Weavings

by Michelle Pace and Haim Yacobi

This is the third podcast in the IAS series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here we listen to Haim Yacobi, Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark discuss the potential impact of Covid 19 in Gaza. Their analysis forms part of a wider Welcome Trust funded research project on the interconnections of power, violence and health in contemporary conflict zones.

We hope you will find this piece informative.

Any comments and questions please do address to Michelle Pace mpace@ruc.dk and Haim Yacobi h.yacobi@ucl.ac.uk

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Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
Executive Producer is Tamar Garb

Life in the Time of Coronavirus. 3# Gaza: From ghetto to frontier

Welcome to our Short Takes podcast series. In the first of our series, Sirpa Salenius, the biographer of Sarah Parker Remond, and author of An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), is going to present some elements of Sarah Parker Remond’s life in Europe, and show why we felt it was such a wonderful thing to be able to use Sarah Parker Remond’s name to express the spirit and the character and the direction of the work that our centre is going to conduct in the future.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-words-sarah-parker-remond

Please note, this recording uses various pronunciations of Remond's name (Europe-US).

Speaker: Sirpa Salenius, University of Eastern Finland
Image: Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC Short Takes: In the words of Sarah Parker Remond

We’re joined by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at CUNY, for a conversation on the current crises of Covid-19 and state violence, touching on the desire for learning as a means of activism, the political geography of mobilisation and double consciousness.
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Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-ruth-wilson-gilmore

This conversation was recorded on 7th June 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Paul Gilroy and Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and distinguished journalist, reflect on Mark Twain’s reputed words ‘history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes’, the first political memories that shaped them, and the potential in engaging sympathy and humour critically.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-gary-younge

This conversation was recorded on 12th June 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and journalist
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Gary Younge

Gail Lewis, psychotherapist and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, joins us for a conversation on Britain’s racial formation; speaking across the generational lines; and how music captures life and sustains us. Gail offers her psychoanalysis on black lives ‘mattering’ and how “being present to the aliveness, and the moments of deadening, and the moments of possibility, even in silence, really teaches you something about being ‘with’.”

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-gail-lewis

This conversation was recorded on 13th July 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Gail Lewis, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at London School of Economics
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Gail Lewis

Award-winning filmmaker, Steve McQueen, joins Paul Gilroy for a conversation on the motivation for his 'Small Axe' film series. McQueen addresses making something that is Black and beautiful in depicting justice and freedom, and how art can give recognition to Black British lives by shoring up “who we are, where we came from and what we contributed to this country”.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-steve-mcqueen

This conversation was recorded on 26th October 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Steve McQueen, Academy Award-winning filmmaker and artist; creator and director of 'Small Axe'
Image: Photo by John Russo
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Steve McQueen

Maki Kimura (UCL Political Science & UCL Arts and Sciences) is joined by Pragna Patel, director and founding member of Southall Black Sisters. Pragna speaks to us about the feminist and anti-racist roots of Southall Black Sisters, discussing intersectionality and structures of inequality, domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, and how the pandemic has further impacted vulnerable groups such as migrant women.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-pragna-patel

This conversation was recorded on 10th November 2020

Speaker: Maki Kimura, Lecturer in UCL Political Science & UCL Arts and Sciences  //  Pragna Patel, director and founding member of Southall Black Sisters
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Pragna Patel

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Black People’s Day of Action march that took place on 2nd March 1981, Paul Gilroy welcomes Linton Kwesi Johnson, poet and activist, to reflect on the events of that day and year, and discuss how we see these patterns repeated in Black life in this country today in the forms of inequality and conflict and demands for truth, right and justice.

Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-linton-kwesi-johnson

This conversation was recorded on 9th February 2021

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Linton Kwesi Johnson, world-renowned reggae poet and recording artist
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

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SPRC In conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson

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