CRaB launch event: Lecture by Professor John Solomos – ‘Conceptualising 21st Century Racisms’

CRaB was officially launched on 8 January 2016 with a talk by Professor John Solomos of the University of Warwick. John is one of Britain’s foremost scholars of race and racism and spoke on the topic of ‘Conceptualising 21st Century Racisms’. Following an introduction by the University of Portsmouth’s Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Professor Pal Ahluwalia John spoke about how the theoretical advances in the study of race and racism that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s – notions such as the ‘new racism’ or ‘cultural racism’ – were still highly salient today in relation to recent reconfigurations of

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‘Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth’: Public lecture by Ryan Hanley

In honour of Black History Month, please join us on Monday, 31st October (refreshments from 5:30) in DS 2.14 for the following talk: Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth Portsmouth is not the first place that springs to mind when we imagine the eighteenth-century black British presence. But, as ‘the world’s greatest naval port’, it served as one of the main entry points for African and African-American sailors travelling to Britain. When they arrived among the dirt, noise and drunkenness of the industrialising port city, some of these individuals took it upon themselves to save the souls of Portsmouth’s ‘poor sinners’. What

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