![]() ![]() Black Panther(2018) had not yet overturned a century of racist dogma about what could and could not thrive at the commercial box office, and last summer’s actions by Black Lives Matter had not yet made the connection between police brutality in America and the legacies of Columbus, Colston and Leopold II a living-room discussion around the world.Ĭonversations around race and the deep roots of white supremacy have moved fast in certain circles in recent years, and in ways that would have been hard to imagine before Brexit or Trump. Authors like Robin DiAngelo and Layla Saad had not yet put books bearing titles such as White Fragility (2018) and Me and White Supremacy (2020) on international bestseller lists. The strength of its polemic, presented within the context of Britain’s mainstream media, was thrilling. European enlightenment, he argued, was from the outset a racist endeavour. ![]() ![]() I n the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, Kehinde Andrews, professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century(2018), made a video for the Guardian arguing that the west “was built on racism” – that the US was created “in the founding fathers’ image of white supremacy” and Britain’s wealth accumulated through centuries of African enslavement. ![]()
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