Tag: Critical Race Theory

• Activism and Scholarship: Achieving the “Plenitude of Blackness”

  

  The Black Studies Association conference – “Blackness in Britain 2015: ‘The Black Special Relationship’” (held at Birmingham City University, 30-31 October 2015) – explored the nature of black activism within and beyond the UK higher education sector, with a particular focus on the historical and contemporary impacts of  African-American scholarship on black intellectual life in Britain. Established and early career researchers from a range of…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  November 2, 2015

  African Diaspora, Caribbean Diaspora, Conferences, Diasporas, Racism, United Kingdom

  Activism, Birmingham, Black British History, Black British Studies, Black Politics, Critical Race Theory, Sociology

• Black Studies Association Conference: Blackness in Britain 2015 (Birmingham City University, 30-31 October)

  

  The theme of the Black Studies Association annual conference is “The Black Special Relationship: The US influence on British Black Studies.” This two-day event takes place at Birmingham City University, 30-31 October 2015, and its programme is concerned with an examination of ways in which Black British intellectual life has been influenced by African-American scholarship…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  January 13, 2015

  African Diaspora, Conferences, Diasporas, Racism

  1945, Activism, African American scholarship, Birmingham, Black British History, Black Studies Association, Blackness, Critical Race Theory, Diasporas, Pan African Congress, Pan-Africanism, Politics