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Living with One China as a Migrant Wife in Taiwan

24th February 2017 CRaB admin Blogs, Uncategorised

By Isabelle Cheng Officially, since 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Taiwan and China do not talk to each other, partly due to the ongoing dispute over the sovereignty of Taiwan. When they talk to each other, they often use a messenger (publicly or privately) since there is no official political contact between the two, in spite of the intensive socio-economic and cultural interactions after the resumed contact in 1987. Would it be a good idea to have Donald Trump as their go-between? Apparently not. The tensions across the Taiwan Strait after Trump talked to Taiwanese President

Handsworth, 1985: Thatcher’s government and the criminalisation of young black men

16th February 2017 CRaB admin Blogs

By Jodi Burkett As part of my ongoing research into the creation of post-imperial Britain, particularly in changing conceptions of ‘race’ and attitudes to immigration, I have recently been reading reports by the Thatcher government regarding the ‘race riots’ in Handsworth in 1985. These documents, released after the 30th anniversary of the riots, reveal a government confident and self-assured in its belief that it was right in its handling of social and economic policies. However, there are hints that they were aware that something was not right in British society, although they fail to put a finger on what exactly

Black Panthers in London – talk by Carlus Hudson

9th January 2017 CRaB admin Blogs

The Black Panthers are one of the most pivotal organisations in the histories of radicalism and anti-racism in the United States, and their ideas have had an enormous impact on activists who have come after them. Far less famous, but by no means less significant, was the Black Panther Movement in Britain. Active in the late 60s and early 70s, its history touches on the fight within the anti-racist movement in Britain between its liberal and radical wings, and the internationalisation of struggles against colonialism, neo-colonialism and the Vietnam War. CRaB research student Carlus Hudson recently gave a talk on