
Dr Sadiah Qureshi: 'There is Black in the Union Jack': Britain's Forgotten...
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On June 21st 2018, Dr Sadiah Qureshi will give a lecture entitled 'There is Black in the Union Jack': Britain's Forgotten History. This is the second of three Summer lectures on Inequality from The IF Project. Tickets are free. All are welcome.
Dr Qureshi is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at The University of Birmingham. Her research explores the ways in which racialised knowledge is produced, circulated and mobilised in the modern world. Dr Qureshi is particularly interested in how such knowledge is used to create hierarchies of value between peoples and the legacies of past discrimination in relationship to contemporary issues of equity and social justice. Dr Qureshi's first book, Peoples on Parade (2011), provided the first substantial survey of the commercial exhibition of displayed peoples in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Want more? The IF Project's three Summer lectures are being held in preparation for a free 8-week course taking place across September and October 2018, entitled ‘Inequality: The Brief History’. The course will explore inequality with historians, writers, artists and philosophers. You can apply to take the course here.