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Race, multiculture, and conviviality in the shadow of Brexit, COVID, and the Windrush scandal

07 February 2023, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm

Thomas Coram Research Unit, Woburn Square.

Join this inaugural TCRU@50 event, part of a programme of activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. 

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Dr Sonya Sharma

Location

Lecture Theatre, Room 309
Roberts Building
Torrington Place
London
WC1E 7JE

In this roundtable, Les Back, Ann Phoenix, and Sivamohan Valluvan will reflect on race, multiculture, and conviviality in the shadow of Brexit, COVID, and the Windrush scandal, three events that have each exposed and exacerbated racialised inequalities. 


This event will be particularly useful for interested in migration, racism and racialisation, multiculture and inequalities.


Listen to the event recording

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About the Speakers

Professor Les Back

University of Glasgow

He is a sociologist and wrote his ground-breaking monograph New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Social Identity and Racism in the Lives of Young People (1996) as a researcher at the Thomas Coram Research Unit. 

Professor Ann Phoenix

Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL

Her work is centred on motherhood, social identities, young people, racialisation, and gender. She is the co-author of Black, White or Mixed race: Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage (1992).

More about Professor Ann Phoenix

Dr Sivamohan Valluvan

University of Warwick

His work focuses on racism, nationalism, multiculture and cosmopolitanism. He is the author of The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain (2019).