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Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

January 15, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

You Don’t Need To Be Gay To Play A Gay Character

Ella Whelan at Spiked Online points out the problems with Russell T Davies’ calls for ‘authenticity ‘ in casting and defends artistic freedom: Outrage is the most lucrative form of cultural capital today. People tweeting their disgust at the fact that they didn’t like a production, or didn’t feel represented by it, is no longer […]

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: arts and culture, identity politics

January 15, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Prejudice Under The Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)

The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic account of the flaws in concepts central to the ‘white fragility’ assertion: Supporters of the ‘unconscious racism’ thesis essentially argue that negative associations held by whites about non-whites, as revealed by the race IAT: (a) […]

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: academia, implicit association test, unconscious bias, white fragility symposium

January 15, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’. A personal response from Howard Sherwood, graphic designer and DDU supporter Following the publication of the Universities UK (UUK) report, many predicted that it would be adopted by higher education establishments as […]

Filed Under: Declaration, Featured Tagged With: academia, decolonising, social justice activism, universities

January 10, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Writer Zadie Smith Reflects On Pandemic, Black Lives Matter Movement in ‘Intimations’

Robin Young, at wbur, interviews the ever thoughtful and thought-provoking author, Zadie Smith. Smith, London-born, now lives in New York. Remembering her brother’s birthday garden party in England, and the mix of people socialising with ease, she writes: …that garden represented structures that have been put in place that allow people to live near each […]

Filed Under: Article, Interview Tagged With: arts, British society, literature

January 8, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

DDU Newsletter

From self-censorship in France to a beautiful humanistic film about the resilience of people in post-earthquake Haiti by Ildi Tillmann, Carrie from the team at Don’t Divide Us offers a selection of news and culture items in this week’s newsletter. Read it, and watch it, here:  From self-censorship in France to a beautiful humanistic film […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Review

January 5, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

From Eastern Europe To Michael Brown: Blind Spots In Our Current Conversations About Race

Ildi Tillmann, at The Equiano Project, brings a fresh perspective on the question of historical erasure and asks what is lost when race becomes ‘a means to power’: In his recent documentary, What Killed Michael Brown, the author and narrator, Shelby Steele, makes various observations about American history, of which two particularly caught my attention. “We […]

Filed Under: Featured, Personal Stories Tagged With: belonging, cosmopolitanism, identity, identity politics

January 5, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Between Native And Foreign Lands: Learning To Live On The Boundary

Dr Alain J.E. Wolf, lecturer at the University of East Anglia, offers a personal reflection on the loss and belonging that can accompany the experience of emigration and suggests that there are responsibilities on both sides – immigrant and host nation: As a lecturer in languages and cross-cultural communication at a U.K University, and a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Personal Stories Tagged With: belonging, cosmopolitanism, identity, personal stories

January 2, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Why Debate And Discussion Has Shifted Towards Identity Politics

Emma Gilland at The Equiano Project considers the difference between a strong sense of self-identity and the political and ethical shallowness of identity-as-a-label. She suggests identity politics speaks to a vacuum created through a combination of two important trends: the demise of class-based voting, and the inability of the established political class to fill this […]

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: belonging, identity politics

January 2, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

The University and the Social Justice Movement: A French Perspective

Michel Tavernier at Areo wonders why French universities, home of intellectuals closely associated with postmodernism, seem immune from the excesses of postmodernism’s political expression that beleaguers universities in the Anglophone world: Tuition fees, which are the product of freewheeling neoliberal economics, have spiralled out of control in the Anglophone world in general and in the […]

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: academia, postmodernism, universities

December 30, 2020 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

A Public Inquiry Without the Public? (Part II)

Montmorency Sharp provides a sharp-eyed commentary on the second and final session of the Oriel Commission’s Inquiry with regards to the fate of the Rhodes statue and plaque. Our fears that our cultural gatekeepers have a very ‘thin’ idea of the public are, sadly, confirmed: This was another session where questions were invited from the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reports and Submissions

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