White Supremacy

What You Need to Know

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This event took place on 31 October 2020

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White Supremacy
What You Need to Know

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This event took place on 31 October 2020

Black Lives Matter has focused attention on the impact of lived experiences of racism. But to what extent has anti-racism been incorporated into the fight for gender equality? This panel explores the legacy of racism on feminist movements, and how women of colour have challenged understandings of gender. How can we better acknowledge different experiences of oppression, and overlapping identities?

This event was part of Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, a UK-wide exhibition by the British Library and public libraries.

Speakers

Angela Saini

Journalist

Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist. Superior: the Return of Race Science, was named a book of the year by The Telegraph, Nature and Financial Times. Her previous book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, has been translated into thirteen languages.

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Nikki Giovanni

Poet

Nikki Giovanni is among America’s foremost poets and one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 Living Legends. Giovanni is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, and her awards include the first Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Her latest collection is Make Me Rain.

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Priyamvada Gopal

Academic and Writer

Priyamvada Gopal is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her book Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent examines traditions of dissent on the question of empire. Gopal’s Dossier of White-Hot Hatred collected responses to the online debate around Black Lives Matter.

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Layla Saad

Writer

Layla Saad is a writer and podcast host. As an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who grew up in the West, she sits at an intersection of identities. The book Me And White Supremacy followed a digital workbook of the same name which was downloaded by close to 90,000 people globally within six months.

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