2019 participants
Kemi Adediran
The key aim for this research was to decentre whiteness within Brexit studies, providing an insight into the way’s histories have formed the racial landscape of the North East, while also critiquing how this racial landscape is being remembered. This research has followed through with this idea, by interviewing a variety of academics, activist, community member and artist, the research has established a fundamental perspective into the ‘neglected’ racial and commemorative history of the North East. However, a new area of focus that has developed within the research has been the institutionalisation of remembrance, ideas exploring who controls the narrative of racial remembrance? The people, events and stories that are neglected within mainstream remembrance? And the sustain opposing theme of tension and solidarity between BAME communities and institutions.
Funding source: Newcastle University
Project Supervisor: Dr Katie Markham and Dr David Bates