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New on The Identities BlogRace, gender and the city
Discussions about racism and whiteness regularly make the headlines in France. In May 2026, this included, for instance, the Parliament adopting a law to restitute cultural items looted during colonial rule as well as polemics around white savior syndrome and racist stereotypes in a politician’s comic book. How do these recurrent national conversations translate into and permeate everyday life and everyday places?
Being Bangladeshi in Britain
As a byproduct of competing nationalist discourses of secular Bengali and Muslim Bangladeshi identities since Bangladeshi independence in 1971, debates between who or what is ‘Bangladeshi’, including what ‘authenticity’ looks like, have emerged in Bangladesh and its diasporas. The British Bangladeshi diaspora particularly embodies these debates: their roots pre-dating the modern Bangladeshi state and connecting them to empire illustrate that migration and intergenerational settlement can facilitate continuity of cultural practices and social norms as well as bring forth change through hybridity, adaptation, and reclamation of previously stigmatized identities....
Connecting White supremacy from the local to the global
How do two recent instances from the UK provide a window into a wider picture of White supremacy? In late 2025 Robert Jenrick, then the Conservative Shadow Justice Minister (who defected to the Reform Party in 2026) made headlines when he complained of ‘not seeing another White face’ in Handsworth, Birmingham. Handsworth is indeed one of most diverse places in the UK, hosting many ‘postcolonial’ immigrants....
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