They All Look the Same, Don’t They?!!
Why do the British media seem to have such a hard time identifying people who share the same skin tone? Ash Sarkar takes a look at the phenomenon known as ‘cross-race effect’.
Tag: Race
Colonial Undertones and the Power of Euphemism
Racially charged… Racially tinged… Racially infused with a racial veloute… Why can’t the media just ever use the word racist?
The Blair Rich Project
On tonight’s #TyskySour guest host Ash Sarkar is joined by Novara Media co-founder James Butler and Kehinde Andrews (professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University) to discuss Socialism in America, The Independent Group and does a royal co-sign mean it’s game-over for Decolonise the University.
The Mason Hour
Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly are joined by Paul Mason to discuss how to respond to the rising tide of fascism across the West, and how Labour can be effective in that fight.
Stop Trump?
Ahead of Trump's visit to the UK – and the protests to accompany it – James Butler is joined by Ash Sarkar and Richard Seymour to discuss the first 18 months of the Trump regime, transatlantic politics post-Brexit, and the uses of political protest.
Ash Sarkar Meets Akala | Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Ash Sarkar spoke to Akala about the white working class, conscious rap and politics, Britishness and his new book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.
On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.
Faultlines: Liz Fekete on Racism, Europe and the New Right
On #NovaraFM, James Butler and Ash Sarkar are joined by Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations, to talk about racism, resistance and the rebirth of the right.
Long Read: What Is Effeminacy and How Can We Celebrate It?
Mainstream society's conception of what it means to be a man leaves no room for the celebration and cherishing of a more feminine kind of manhood.
Should We Trust a “woke” Theresa May on Race?
Ash Sarkar assesses May’s pledge to release data on the racial pay gap, and explains why austerity is an anti-racist issue.
Long Read: Unsettling Feminism and the Politics of the Prison Break: Ash Sarkar In Conversation with Alana Lentin
As part of our week-long Women's Strike focus, Novara Media Senior Editor Ash Sarkar interviews political sociologist and social theorist Alana Lentin about racialised exclusions from femininity and strategies for unsettling the existing social order.
It’s Political Blackness Gone Mad!
This week Ash Sarkar is joined by Wail Qasim and Reni Eddo-Lodge to discuss the politics of blackness, and how the global phenomenon of racism finds purchase in locally specific ways.
Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On
40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?
Reducing ‘Drop-Out’ Rates for Black Students Means Institutional Transformation, Not Individual Support
Black students are 50% more likely to drop out of university than their peers, but as long as solutions are geared towards individual ‘support’, the government’s commitment to racial equality remains superficial.
UK Black Lives Matter Activists #Shutdown the M4
This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racism of borders. Ash Sarkar reports.
‘They kill us because they see that we were never alive anyway’ – Black Lives Matter in the UK
Wail Qasim on why the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in North America, has a lot to add to ongoing struggles on the other side of the Atlantic.
4 Reasons Why #RhodesMustFall in Oxford – and Everywhere Else
Following a huge campaign to remove a statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College, Oxford, leaked documents show the college has caved to donors threatening to withdraw their money. Of course, the campaign is about far more than the statue.
#BlackLivesMatter: Race and Resistance in the UK
Ash Sarkar is joined by Adam Cooper, Ashok Kumar and London Black Dissidents as they discuss racist policing and immigration policy in the UK.