Event overview
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Anti-blackness is a prevalent and pervasive problem in the South Asian community.
Colourism runs rampant in a community where being darker than your neighbour is sinful. Grandmothers are quick to tell their granddaughter not to spend too much, if any, time in the sun. Dark is bad. White is right. The darker you are, the less your chances of getting married. And many other lies have seeped down through generations afflicted with the guilt of colonisation and casteism. This conditioned belief is, to an extent, visible in the way our community interacts with Black people. South Asians find it easier to exploit the Black community than repair their own views towards them.
Dr Akanksha Mehta, Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies and the co-director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths will be in conversation with Dhruva Balram.
About Dhruva Balram
Dhruva Balram is an Indian-Canadian freelance culture journalist based in London, England. Exploring the intersection of his interests in pop culture, communities, South Asian identity and societal issues, Dhruva has, amongst other places, written for The Guardian, NPR, Media Diversified, Dazed and The Lifted Brow. He is also the former editor of The Wild City in India, the sub-continent’s largest online publication for alternative culture and music. He has been researching anti-Blackness in the South Asian community for a few years and has appeared on the BBC to discuss the issue. Dhruva is also currently writing a series of essays for Media Diversified that tackles the problem from multiple angles.
Image credit: Luke Duggleby, Sidi Project
Dates & times
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| 19 Mar 2019 |
7:00pm - 9:00pm Refreshment served after film screening. Accessibility: RHB 137 is on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible. |
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