Job insecurity and prejudice forcing Africans to leave Northern Ireland

Recent reports in the media have indicated that there are a growing number of African people returning to their motherland from Europe because of high levels of job insecurity. Common convention especially within some right-wing migration discourses; often describe the African bit of the South-North travel as an economic experience inspired by a one-way ticket…

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Book Review: Nigger for Life by Neal Hall, M.D

Nigger for Life is an insightful anthology of poems that both document and articulate Hall’s experience as a black man in the U.S and in an uncompromising and unapologetic style of delivery, asserts that you cannot escape the confines of race, hence the title of the book. When I first glanced at the book’s cover…

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UNIYFPAD can demonstrate the power of arts & culture

The United Nations International Year for People of African Descent (UNIYFPAD) is likely to mean many different things to many different people across the world. Personally, I see it as a chance to reflect, educate and celebrate the positive contribution and influence of people of African descent to societies, while looking at ways to eradicate…

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The everyday language of white racism by Jane H. Hill

I first immersed myself in critical race theory scholarship four years ago when I began researching white supremacy for my book, Layers of Blackness: Colourism in the African Diaspora. Since then, I have borne witness to the way that critical race theory, originally developed by lawyers, has been applied to a number of areas from…

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Activists use the blogosphere to fight racism against Afro Cubans

In my book Layers of Blackness :Colourism in the African Diaspora , which examines how the process of discrimination based on skin tone has evolved from slavery and colonialism; chapter five analyzes the system of pigmentocracy in Latin America. Pigmentocracy refers to the social grouping of individuals based on race and colour established by Spanish…

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