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Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR's history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812
Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR’s history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812
Liz Fekete is the Director of the Institute of Race Relations and head of its European research program. She has worked with the Institute since 1982 and specializes in contemporary racism, refugee rights, far-right extremism and Islamophobia across Europe. She is advisory editor of the Institute’s journal Race & Class and is the author of A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe and Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right. We discuss her nearly 40 years working for the UK’s leading race relations educational charity, her mentorship under the late and great A Sivanandan and how the anti-racism movement here in the UK has changed since the 1980s. Importantly, she provides some necessary historical and sociopolitical context for our current moment, including how the rise of the far-right in Europe over the last 30 years has made our communities more vulnerable to Covid-19 today.---This conversation forms part of a special series funded by the European Cultural Foundation and exploring queer Black solidarity across Europe during Covid-19.---Thank you to our partners, UK Black Pride, BlackOut UK, The Tenth and Schools Out.
Dorothy Guerrero, head of policy at Global Justice Now, chairs a panel consisting of Abdul Alkalimat, African-American activist, scholar and author, Walden Bello, Filipino public intellectual and activist and Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations in London. The panelists explore how structural inequalities and racism in the US, Trump’s catastrophic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and yet another black man’s death at the hands of US law enforcement combined into the explosive country-wide mass uprising that is now causing ripples around the world. Music: Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence
Several themes are beginning to coalesce in European far right politics. The traditional family has to be protected. Western culture has to be protected. And Christian identity must be central. Liz Fekete is a long-time observer of the far right in Europe. She is director of the Institute of Race Relations and the author of Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right.
Several themes are beginning to coalesce in European far right politics. The traditional family has to be protected. Western culture has to be protected. And Christian identity must be central. Liz Fekete is a long-time observer of the far right in Europe. She is director of the Institute of Race Relations and the author of Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right.
The White Power Movement in the US: Laurie Taylor talks to Kathleen Belew, Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Chicago, and author of a new book which traces the origins and development of the racist far right. They're joined by Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations, who discusses her study of similar (and different) forces in Europe. Producer: Jayne Egerton
Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted to reopen the government on Monday. Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein offers his analysis of the role that the media and the Democratic Party's right flank played in pushing senators to fold. This interview was recorded Tuesday and posted early because things are moving fast.Thanks to Verso Books for their support. Check out Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right by Liz Fekete versobooks.com/books/2555-europe-s-fault-lines. And please support us with $ at patreon.com/TheDig!
The 22 May 2013 program features Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations and the journal's review editor Jon Burnett, Assistant Editor of IRR News and the author of a major article on new geographies of racial violence in the current April–June 2013; 54(4) issue.
This focus panel on race and racism was recorded at Foyles, Charing Cross Rd, 23rd March 2016 at the second in the Our London event series in collaboration with Compass and co-hosted by Novara Media. One of the greatest aspects of living in London is its diversity, but at the same time the city is striated by racial politics. In London, as throughout the UK, people from BAME groups have been historically much more likely to be in poverty than white British people, as well as suffer from housing deprivation, homelessness and inferior access to healthcare and education. Meanwhile, racist violence is on the rise, with state racisms against ‘Muslimness’, an institutionally racist police and the ‘extreme centre’ of the British political elite enforcing tensions between race, class and nation in a context of increasing immigration and numerous global crises. In response to all of this, Novara Media, Verso and Compass will be co-hosting a panel that focuses on living in London and some of the intersecting oppressions that increasingly define it. Novara Media's Aaron Bastani chairs the panel and is joined by Jumanah Younis of Sisters Uncut, Ash Sarkar, also from Novara Media, Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations and author of the forthcoming Fault Lines (Verso, 2017)and activist and academic Adam Elliott-Cooper. We remember those who died in police custody and ask: What does it mean to call London a multicultural – or even a post-racial – city in the context of neoliberalism? What is the relationship between race and class in the city in 2016 and how should mayoral candidates be responding to these issues?
Bildningsbyrån tar oss med på en resa till London, där vi tittar närmare på kolonialismens historia och det mänskliga psyket. Vi försöker ta reda på varför rasism i olika former uppstår. Torun Lindholm, professor i psykologi vid Stockholms universitet, beskriver de psykologiska mekanismer som skapar våra stereotypa bilder av andra och hur det kommer sig att de som inte tillhör ens egen etnicitet svartmålas. Liz Fekete, vd vid brittiska Institute of race relations, arbetar med att kartlägga rasismen i Europa. Hon menar att psykologiska mekanismer inte kan ge tillräckliga förklaringar till rasismen utan att vi även måste titta på politiskt agerande som pekar ut vissa grupper som särskilt problematiska i samhället.
Bildningsbyrån tar oss med på en resa till London, där vi tittar närmare på kolonialismens historia och det mänskliga psyket. Vi försöker ta reda på varför rasism i olika former uppstår. Torun Lindholm, professor i psykologi vid Stockholms universitet, beskriver de psykologiska mekanismer som skapar våra stereotypa bilder av andra och hur det kommer sig att de som inte tillhör ens egen etnicitet svartmålas. Liz Fekete, vd vid brittiska Institute of race relations, arbetar med att kartlägga rasismen i Europa. Hon menar att psykologiska mekanismer inte kan ge tillräckliga förklaringar till rasismen utan att vi även måste titta på politiskt agerande som pekar ut vissa grupper som särskilt problematiska i samhället.