I missed this excellent piece by Aditya back in October, on closed - TopicsExpress



          

I missed this excellent piece by Aditya back in October, on closed down community identities and the political meaning of being black. Worth a read if you missed it as well: When someone like my late father responded to the term “black”, it was not because he’d forgotten his Tagore, or the films of Satyajit Ray. He carried that history with greater care and affection than those who today boast of their Bengali-ness. But “black” wasn’t about pigment or some flatpack identity. It was primarily a political term, borne of a recognition among those who’d recently arrived in Britain that they faced obstacles in common and would try and beat them together. One wore “black” not instead of “Jamaican” or “Sikh” but alongside all those other labels of cultural and historical identity, as an anti-racist affiliation. theguardian/commentisfree/2014/oct/30/bengali-black-ethnic-minorities-racism
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 08:58:56 +0000

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