Emma Dabiri Instagram – Earlier this year I sat down in the @nationalportraitgallery with the philosopher #JohnGray, the writer @ayishat_akanbi and others to talk about race and the #CultureWars
The Invention of our modern concept of a “White Race” and a “Black Race” in the 17th century English colony of Barbados , how it encompasses #Irish history and #Africanhistory, how it relates to the Culture Wars today and how racism and racial division remains one of the most effective tools for mobilising people against acting in their own best interests.
In this new era where we are witnessing the reassertion of race as a biological and immutable truth (in order to justify the hierarchy that places white at the top and black firmly at the bottom) through spurious claims that have been discredited for the last century, it is ever more pressing that we understand the history ideology informing our racial categories.
I remember @fkatwigs recently asking “where are all the thinkers ” here ya go sis ! Feel free to share this with your millions of followers 😜#caribbean #caribbeanhistory #blackhistory #britishhistory #theinventionofrace #whatwhitepeoplecandonext | Posted on 04/Aug/2025 23:23:40
