Author: Joe Cotton

Fri 06 May 2022, 14.10-14.30 Katrina Ffrench, UNJUST Katrina Ffrench is the Founding Director of UNJUST C.I.C, and was formerly the first chief executive of the national charity StopWatch.  Katrina has overseen the publication of several evidence-based reports and has led a range of advocacy initiatives influencing policing policy and practice. A confident and effective… Continue reading Oppression or protection? Policing & Black British Caribbean communities

Fri 06 May 2022, 10.30-10.50 Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry, University of West London In this Reggaematical talk, Prof William ‘Lez’ Henry will take you on an audio-visual journey through some of the hidden struggles of Black people in the UK for equal rights and social justice, as framed through the lens of reggae music. By… Continue reading British Reggae: Resistance and Transcendence

Sat 07 May 2022, 11.40-12.00 Levi Tafari, Charles University Levi Tafari was born in Liverpool. He is the author of three poetry collections: Duboetry (1987), Liverpool Experience (1989) and Rhyme Don’t Pay (1998). His latest collection, From the Page to the Stage, is now available. His plays have been performed at the Unity Theatre and… Continue reading Post-Windrush: Next Generation Europeans

Sat 07 May 2022, 11.15-11.35 Dr Martin Glynn, Birmingham City University Reggae theatrics, expressed through Dub poetry with the maxim of ‘Words, Sound, Power’, articulated the voice of black British resistance throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. Operating as a cultural ‘counter narrative’ dub poetry contested traditional constructs regarding the understandings of black oppression and it’s… Continue reading Reggae Theatrics: Dub poetry, Words, Sound, Power and Resistance

Fri 06 May 2022, 11.20-11.40 Dr Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, SOAS and Birkbeck University The disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has called us to consider fundamental life questions: What is the significance of human contact? What are the parameters of social responsibility? What is essential for our comfort and happiness? Similarly, the 2020 Black Lives Matter… Continue reading ‘Liv Good’: The Intersectionally Just Good Life, an African/Caribbean Perspective

Sat 07 May 2022, 12.05-12.25 Dr Michael McMillan, University of the Arts London From the gaze of the post-Windrush generation, growing up and living Black in Britain, the public domain of the street has been the site of resistance for Black youth (often coded as male) against being Othered in a racist society. In the… Continue reading The Front Room: Diaspora migrant aesthetics in the Home

Fri 06 May 2022, 14.35-14.55 Dr Sharon Walker, University of Bristol For this talk, I am interested in the representation of the ‘Windrush generation’. Echoing, Taylor (2020) in her paper ‘Representing the Windrush generation’, I am interested in the shifts in representation – the continuities and discontinuities – of this migrant group of around half… Continue reading The ‘Windrush generation’ as a discursive construction: the representation of a migrant group in UK public discourse

Fri 06 May 2022, 13.45-14.05 Dr Christiana Abraham, Concordia University This paper engages with a rarely discussed aspect of the Wind-Rush migration phenomenon: the children left behind.  Hundreds, even thousands of children were left behind in the Caribbean when many young West Indian migrants climbed aboard the ships to seek new opportunities in England during the three… Continue reading The Windrush and the children left behind: in/visible narratives of migration, recognition and belonging

Sat 07 May 2022, 14.55-15.15 Dr Joy White, University of Bedfordshire Forty years of neoliberalism on either side of the Atlantic have embedded nihilistic, consumerist values as though that is the only way for society to move forward. In this landscape, Black lives have been rendered as troublesome, and are perceived as having little value.… Continue reading Reflections on Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

Sat 07 May 2022, 15.20-15.40 Dr Audrey Allwood, Goldsmiths Today we have reached the fifth generation since the WWII mass migration of Caribbean people to Britain. This enabled sizeable communities to form in the major cities in Britain. Although there have been challenges to the settlement and integration, Caribbean people have also achieved much success.… Continue reading Looking Ahead: Caribbean community and identity in the fifth generation