FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge

📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website

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📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot

New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
@ersjournal.com

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

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What if you had a French passport, spoke true French, but were never seen as truly French?

Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies.

Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...

New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity

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#ERSNew🐣🔓 By exploring the experiences of French citizens of Indian descent, this article advances our understanding of racialisation processes and racial formation in colour-blind contexts. Article by @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social‬ : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513376

My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this.
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

Negotiating the boundaries of #Blackness and naming #whiteness: The racialisation and identity formation process of #FrenchCitizensOfIndianDescent

Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya

The University of Manchester

Coming soon!

#Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation

SEMINAR. Please join us online or in person (Manchester)

📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy

🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University

📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
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Our next seminar:

‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy

🗣Brett St Louis

📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online)

@uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
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🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn

📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester

All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
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Our next seminar:

'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing'
🗣Dr Yunis Alam
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online)
@uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
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So cute 😭

Another reason for you to move out of the city centre 😂😂😂

Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history!

The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’

🔗👇🏽

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THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday!

www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...

Our next seminar is from Ajmal Hussain, Thurs 16 Jan. Join us online/in person 👇🏾

Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today.

If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening.

One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)

SEMINAR
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city

🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)

@uomsociology.bsky.social
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Follow @ethnicityuk.bsky.social folk with our starter pack:
go.bsky.app/JVeXtKu

Not sure how good my teaching is (my jokes never land), BUT I could do it if you're still looking for people! Have taught on topics inc. citizenship, policing, bordering, trying to not be overly theoretical and using fiction and pop culture + 'lived experiences' of classed and racialised oppression

📽WATCH:

'Back to Black? Identity politics in treacherous times'

Claire Alexander's lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfH...