WHY I WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO COLLECT DATA ABOUT MY ETHNICITY

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged antigypsyism, census, data, discrimination, ERRC, ethnicity, Europe, featured, France, government, GRT, gypsy, Hungary, identity, invisibility, Italy, law, Mapping for Change, measures, mortality, policy, population, Roma, Romani, Slovakia, statistics, Sweden, traveller.

by Jonathan Lee

A new project to count the number of Romani Gypsies and Irish Travellers in London was recently launched by London Gypsies & Travellers and Mapping for Change. Their goal is to provide an accurate estimate of the numbers and distribution of GRT (Gypsy, Roma and Traveller) people across the city.

Official census statistics on Romani and Traveller people in the UK are famously inaccurate (only 58,000 in the 2011 census). This is partly because neither group are traditionally very fond of official registers, particularly those which record ethnicity.

And why should we be?Continue Reading

GOING BACKWARDS – OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY CLASS PROBLEM

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged bias, black students, BME, class, David Lammy MP, discrimination, diversity, elitism, ender, equality, equity, ethnicity, government, Grenfell Tower disaster, higher education, Oxford, politics, prejudice, privatisation, prospective students, regional inequality, ruling class, solidarity, students, uk, universities, upper class.

by Laura Potts

I was shocked to see in recent news that Oxford university has been accused of ‘social apartheid’ after their student intake was analysed. This story joins the long standing and highly complicated debate around the wider concept of university equality and educational fairness, revealing some worrying patterns that have begun to emerge in recent years.

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF RACE

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #shutdown, animal produce, anthropocene, biodiversity, black bodies, black lives matter, blmuk, brown bodies, capitalism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migrants, co2 emissions, contaminated water, crisis of race, deforestation, development, ecology, environmental racism, ethnicity, Flint, g20, holocene, industrial growth, industrialisation, london, london city airport, mass extinction, migrants, oil, paris climate change, plastic pollutants, race, racism, sea levels, theresa may, ukblm, working class.

by Emmanuel Agu

Perhaps not in its inception, though undeniably, the climate change crisis is one of race. The protest today launched by the UK chapter of the Black Lives Matter (BLMUK) stands as a call to arms in opposition of worrying statistics of the UK’s Influence on both global climate change and the local effects — highlighting the disproportionate nature of these adverse affects on communities of colour in the west and world wide. Continue Reading

BEAUTY IS IN THE HANDS OF THE AFFLUENT

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged beauty, class, ethnicity, Europe, Perspectives, physicality, privilege, race, self, society, travel, wealth.

By Sunetra Senior

This article is inspired by the bizarre reaction I have encountered as a reasonably dressed British-Asian travelling through the less diverse, major cities in Western Europe. At first I thought I was being paranoid – after all it is hard not to be aware of your starkly contrasting skin-colour in a sea of predominantly white faces. But this particular behaviour became undeniable in places of public transit – such as the queues at passport control and the underground – where you would need to cut the tension with a laser from a high-quality diamond factory. People weren’t just looking, they were gawking.

And the most interesting part was that it wasn’t malicious. There was no sneering or narrowing of eyes, but rather lingering looks of astonishment and intrigue. Eventually I began to wonder, and do excuse my ‘French’ when I say this, could it be that these dear people were not used to seeing a person of ethnic minority actually looking good?Continue Reading

REPRESENTATION ISN’T ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU – PART 2

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #BEYAHERO, #BlackLivesMatter, activism, barack obama, Beyonce, black identity, black lives matter, Donald Trump, election, ethnicity, feminism, hero, intersectional feminism, intersectionality, left wing, LGBT+, liberations, Michelle Obama, race, racism, representation, US, US president, white supremacy.

by Emmanuel Agu

To be forthcoming; yes- living and working conditions for black people have reached some atrocious lows in Obama’s two terms as president: the worst black unemployment rate in 28 years was recorded at was 16.8 in March 2011; 28 percent of all African Americans were living in poverty in 2013, and two out of five African American children lived in relative poverty – the most harrowing statistic of all: a $131,000 disparity between the average income of the white household and the African American.

Perhaps the biggest paradox of all is a Black President coexisting with the Black Lives Matter movement independent of the government. Statistics like these really do not encourage much faith in Obama and his ability as a ‘black president’- but again to merely look at these statistics without considering the economic climate Obama was thrust into would be a misrepresentative and reductive analysis. The ‘Great Recession’ in 2008-13 is widely understood to be caused by a deregulation of wall street during Bush’s Administration and was characterised by fiscal austerity, collapsing of housing markets due to irresponsible lending from the banking sector which (amongst many other contributory factors), could perhaps be lead us to reason these effects on the black community.Continue Reading

REPRESENTATION ISN’T ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU, PART 1

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, barack obama, Ben Carson, black identity, Donald Trump, election, ethnicity, left wing, liberations, race, racism, representation, US, US president, white supremacy.

by Emmanuel Agu

More so than ever before with our current Conservative government- UK politics has always been something I’ve personally felt very distanced from. Those who occupy positions of power that govern the direction our nation is heading in are often far richer than I, public/grammar school educated, significantly whiter and straighter than I could ever hope to be – I’ve accepted that fact a long time ago, and it’s not something I see changing in near future.

Don’t misunderstand me though, I will never and apply the often far-reaching and misdirected scope of white liberalism (see Caroline Crampton and Louise Mensch twitter feeds) and contend privileged members of parliament can never hold the interests of the oppressed at heart in their campaigns and motions- effective representation is far more than a skin deep observation.

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WHY I WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO COLLECT DATA ABOUT MY ETHNICITY

GOING BACKWARDS – OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY CLASS PROBLEM

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF RACE

BEAUTY IS IN THE HANDS OF THE AFFLUENT

REPRESENTATION ISN’T ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU – PART 2

REPRESENTATION ISN’T ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU, PART 1

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