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What's Happening in Black British History X
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Session Three: The Dual Heritage Experience in Britain

Chair: Jordan Harris (University of Leicester)

Speakers:
Liam McCarthy (University of Leicester)
Racism, Violence and Sex: An alternative history of the American ‘occupation’ of Leicester in the Second World War

Sue Bishop (University of Leicester)
Redefining the Domestic Politics of British’Blackness’? ‘Mixed’ Black Caribbean and white British romantic relationships in postwar Leicester

Annabelle Gilmore (University of Sheffield)
Walking the Line: Parallels of mixed race identity in the eighteenth and twenty-first century

Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester)
Cultural resistance’ and shifting notions of blackness in local football in Leicester c 1970-2010: What is Cavaliers FC resisting now?

02/05/2019