Black Theory in Britain

Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · Jun 6, 2026 · 2h 8m

In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Black Critical Thought in UK Arts and Higher Education’.

We actually recorded this in March 2026

We talk about the history of academic and non-academic responses to the experience of racism and radicalisation in Britain since the 1960s, with particular reference to the 1980s Black Arts movement, Cultural Studies in the 1990s, more recent debates over ‘Afro-pessimism’, and the revival of militant…