Jenny Bourne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Bourne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Bourne |
| SIGNATURE | BOURNE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Race Relations |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6975-077X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
IRR50 and the revolutionary act
To open the IRR50 ‘New Circuits of Anti-racism Conference’ held at King’s College London in October 2022, Jenny Bourne, staff member, and Colin Prescod, IRR Chair, describe in their short speeches what the changing of the orientation of the Institute of Race Relations at its 1972 Extraordinary General Meeting had meant and how the organisation had changed its role and focused its commitment over fifty years. Their introduction includes descriptio…
Seeing off Empire
This article retrieves the life and cultural contributions to Britain of Trinidadian Pearl Prescod, singer, campaigner and the first Black female actor at the National Theatre. She is one of a generation of artists, performers, singers and intellectuals whose contribution to the creation of a Black and anti-colonial strand in British culture in the 1950s and ‘60s has been neglected. By tracking her life from her colonial origins through her migra…
On the Scale of the World
Out of the cauldron
This is an abbreviated account of the UK webinar launch in October 2021 of the biography, Cedric Robinson: the time of the Black Radical Tradition, written by Joshua Myers. Moderated by James Pope, panellists, including Myers, Colin Prescod, John Narayan, Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson present their takes on Robinson in relation to the UK and especially his relationship with the Institute of Race Relations and the journal Race & Class. They …
IRR50 and the revolutionary act
Double take
Objective Abolition is sometimes portrayed as a taking of property rights from former masters. If we consider freedom as the baseline, slavery could instead represent a taking of property rights from slaves. To gauge pecuniary losses to slaves, I estimate foregone wages to former U.S. slaves alive at the time of emancipation. Method I use slave hire rates and values from colonial times to the 1860s to calculate lost compensation to former slaves.…
This is what a radical intervention could look like
An interview with Chicago-based Black historian, activist and writer Barbara Ransby in July 2020 as to how to understand the significance of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) uprisings across the US. Ransby defines the movement and the forces that made George Floyd's murder a pivotal point for so many people, bringing them on to the streets in over 500 locations. She explains the gestation of the movement against 'racial capitalism' from 2012 o…
If not now, when
The Bank War and the Partisan Press
The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America. By Stephen W. Campbell. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. x, 222 pp. $34.95.) Jenny Bourne Jenny Bourne Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Making All Black Lives Matter
Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias
The author warns against accepting the concept of unconscious bias (measured by a supposedly scientific cognitive function test) as the explanation for racism and the terrain on which it should be combatted. Using the writings of Sivanandan, in which he distinguished between attitude, action and state or institutional racism, she traces the different ways over time in which racism has been camouflaged by the use of words such as xenophobia or dis…
Carf
A former member of the CARF Collective from the 1970s onwards explains the significance to the anti-racist movement of seventy-two issues of the CARF magazine (1991-2003), now digitalised and available to download on the website of the Institute of Race Relations. She traces the emergence of a grassroots movement in the 1970s which gave primacy to anti-racism over anti-fascism, pointing out also the tensions with 'the Left' over such politics, th…
Cedric Robinson
Submission from the IRR to the Labour Party Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, including Islamophobia
Following a number of accusations of anti-Semitism against British Labour Party activists, including former London mayor Ken Livingstone, an inquiry into racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia was instituted by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in May 2016 - to be chaired by Shami Chakrabarti (former director of Liberty). This article consists of the submission to the inquiry from the Institute of Race Relations which suggests the parameters within whi…
When Black was a political colour
Unlike in the US, there is no established Black Studies in the UK, black history is officially recognised just in Black History Month. But there is now a resurgence of interest in the era of British Black Power and the way Black became a political colour in the UK. This provides a guide to (non-fiction) literature (in the period 1950s-1980s) on black political agency and the emergence of Black Power in the UK. It concentrates on materials produce…
It has to change
Martha Osamor, now 75, is one of the many unsung heroes of Britain's black community, and has spent almost all her adult life fighting to better the position of people in Tottenham and beyond. She came to Britain in 1963, and has worked in the community, through the unions, in the women's movement, in the local council and the Labour Party (which, controversially, deselected her from standing for a safe seat in 1989). Undeterred, Martha is still …
The case for self-defence
In this polemic, originally published in the magazine CARF in March 1979, the authors show through a number of cases, how the police are failing to protect black people from racist attacks and then how the criminal justice system compounds this failure by penalising those who are forced to defend themselves, and then ruling out of court the whole issue of racial provocation. Why, ask the authors, should other liberal freedoms take precedence over…
Eqbal Ahmad
Anti-racist witchcraft
In the light of the current discourse about national belonging in Britain/the UK, the author examines an episode in the 1980s when the same kind of debate was initiated by the Thatcherite Right over the work of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its booklets for young people about the derivation and reality of racism. Accusing the IRR of political indoctrination, falsifying history, denigrating white people and redefining racism, attempts …
May we bring harmony'? Thatcher's legacy on 'race
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most controversial prime ministers of the twentieth century, can be found today in the way that nativism has become part of national discourse. She was responsible for ushering in, following the 'riots' of 1981 and the Scarman report, policies based on funding the religious and cultural 'needs' of different ethnic groups - which finally broke down black politics and also paved the way for cultural separ…
Anatomy of Injustice
Mary Dines
Spaghetti House siege
The author, who has worked at the Institute of Race Relations since 1970, recalls the Spaghetti House siege of 1975, when three armed, young, political black men intent on a small-scale robbery ended up holding nine waiters hostage for five days. The home secretary and senior police officers, anxious that such an event should not be repeated, played down the political element of the crime; the black community thought otherwise. The piece goes on …
Tributes
Irr
The development of the Institute of Race Relations' (IRR) work, from its transformation in the early 1970s through to the present day, is traced here by one of its central figures. An account is given of how the UK's experience of fighting racism was applied by the IRR to other European contexts and also became the basis for a UK news service using new media. Finally, the establishing of an archive documenting the black struggle in Britain is des…
Cheerleaders and ombudsmen
Towards an anti-racist feminism
Homelands of the mind
The Life and Times of Institutional Racism
Cet article fait part de l'institutionnalisation du racisme en Grande Bretagne. En revenant sur les pratiques policieres, l'A. retrace le developpement et la theorisation de la discrimination raciale au sein des principales institutions, judiciaire, educative mais egalement sur le marche du travail et du logement. Les politiques gouvernementales produisent elles meme le discours raciste, ce qui entraine un enracinement profond de ce sentiment au …
When Black was a political colour
Unlike in the US, there is no established Black Studies in the UK, black history is officially recognised just in Black History Month. But there is now a resurgence of interest in the era of British Black Power and the way Black became a political colour in the UK. This provides a guide to (non-fiction) literature (in the period 1950s-1980s) on black political agency and the emergence of Black Power in the UK. It concentrates on materials produce…
Driven to despair
The authors examine recent research from the Institute of Race Relations, which documents the deaths of over 200 asylum seekers and undocumented migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach the UK or in work-related accidents, as a result of racial attacks and, most often, as a result of self-harm, especially in detention centres
Powell, the Minorities, and the 1970 Election
This is what a radical intervention could look like
An interview with Chicago-based Black historian, activist and writer Barbara Ransby in July 2020 as to how to understand the significance of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) uprisings across the US. Ransby defines the movement and the forces that made George Floyd's murder a pivotal point for so many people, bringing them on to the streets in over 500 locations. She explains the gestation of the movement against 'racial capitalism' from 2012 o…
Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias
The author warns against accepting the concept of unconscious bias (measured by a supposedly scientific cognitive function test) as the explanation for racism and the terrain on which it should be combatted. Using the writings of Sivanandan, in which he distinguished between attitude, action and state or institutional racism, she traces the different ways over time in which racism has been camouflaged by the use of words such as xenophobia or dis…
May we bring harmony'? Thatcher's legacy on 'race
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most controversial prime ministers of the twentieth century, can be found today in the way that nativism has become part of national discourse. She was responsible for ushering in, following the 'riots' of 1981 and the Scarman report, policies based on funding the religious and cultural 'needs' of different ethnic groups - which finally broke down black politics and also paved the way for cultural separ…
Spaghetti House siege
The author, who has worked at the Institute of Race Relations since 1970, recalls the Spaghetti House siege of 1975, when three armed, young, political black men intent on a small-scale robbery ended up holding nine waiters hostage for five days. The home secretary and senior police officers, anxious that such an event should not be repeated, played down the political element of the crime; the black community thought otherwise. The piece goes on …
Carf
A former member of the CARF Collective from the 1970s onwards explains the significance to the anti-racist movement of seventy-two issues of the CARF magazine (1991-2003), now digitalised and available to download on the website of the Institute of Race Relations. She traces the emergence of a grassroots movement in the 1970s which gave primacy to anti-racism over anti-fascism, pointing out also the tensions with 'the Left' over such politics, th…
Irr
The development of the Institute of Race Relations' (IRR) work, from its transformation in the early 1970s through to the present day, is traced here by one of its central figures. An account is given of how the UK's experience of fighting racism was applied by the IRR to other European contexts and also became the basis for a UK news service using new media. Finally, the establishing of an archive documenting the black struggle in Britain is des…
The beatification of Enoch Powell
The reputation of Enoch Powell, the notorious Conservative politician forced out of the shadow cabinet in 1968 for his emotive, racist speeches, is being rehabilitated by Tory politicians and sections of the media
Does Legislating against Racial Violence Work
Plantation politics
Powell, the Minorities, and the 1970 Election
Cheerleaders and ombudsmen
Towards an anti-racist feminism
Plantation politics
Homelands of the mind
The rending pain of re-enactment
Uk
The Life and Times of Institutional Racism
Cet article fait part de l'institutionnalisation du racisme en Grande Bretagne. En revenant sur les pratiques policieres, l'A. retrace le developpement et la theorisation de la discrimination raciale au sein des principales institutions, judiciaire, educative mais egalement sur le marche du travail et du logement. Les politiques gouvernementales produisent elles meme le discours raciste, ce qui entraine un enracinement profond de ce sentiment au …
Does Legislating against Racial Violence Work
Labour's love lost
Driven to despair
The authors examine recent research from the Institute of Race Relations, which documents the deaths of over 200 asylum seekers and undocumented migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach the UK or in work-related accidents, as a result of racial attacks and, most often, as a result of self-harm, especially in detention centres
Irr
The development of the Institute of Race Relations' (IRR) work, from its transformation in the early 1970s through to the present day, is traced here by one of its central figures. An account is given of how the UK's experience of fighting racism was applied by the IRR to other European contexts and also became the basis for a UK news service using new media. Finally, the establishing of an archive documenting the black struggle in Britain is des…
The beatification of Enoch Powell
The reputation of Enoch Powell, the notorious Conservative politician forced out of the shadow cabinet in 1968 for his emotive, racist speeches, is being rehabilitated by Tory politicians and sections of the media
Tributes
Spaghetti House siege
The author, who has worked at the Institute of Race Relations since 1970, recalls the Spaghetti House siege of 1975, when three armed, young, political black men intent on a small-scale robbery ended up holding nine waiters hostage for five days. The home secretary and senior police officers, anxious that such an event should not be repeated, played down the political element of the crime; the black community thought otherwise. The piece goes on …
Mary Dines
May we bring harmony'? Thatcher's legacy on 'race
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most controversial prime ministers of the twentieth century, can be found today in the way that nativism has become part of national discourse. She was responsible for ushering in, following the 'riots' of 1981 and the Scarman report, policies based on funding the religious and cultural 'needs' of different ethnic groups - which finally broke down black politics and also paved the way for cultural separ…
Anatomy of Injustice
Anti-racist witchcraft
In the light of the current discourse about national belonging in Britain/the UK, the author examines an episode in the 1980s when the same kind of debate was initiated by the Thatcherite Right over the work of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its booklets for young people about the derivation and reality of racism. Accusing the IRR of political indoctrination, falsifying history, denigrating white people and redefining racism, attempts …
Cedric Robinson
Submission from the IRR to the Labour Party Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, including Islamophobia
Following a number of accusations of anti-Semitism against British Labour Party activists, including former London mayor Ken Livingstone, an inquiry into racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia was instituted by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in May 2016 - to be chaired by Shami Chakrabarti (former director of Liberty). This article consists of the submission to the inquiry from the Institute of Race Relations which suggests the parameters within whi…
When Black was a political colour
Unlike in the US, there is no established Black Studies in the UK, black history is officially recognised just in Black History Month. But there is now a resurgence of interest in the era of British Black Power and the way Black became a political colour in the UK. This provides a guide to (non-fiction) literature (in the period 1950s-1980s) on black political agency and the emergence of Black Power in the UK. It concentrates on materials produce…
It has to change
Martha Osamor, now 75, is one of the many unsung heroes of Britain's black community, and has spent almost all her adult life fighting to better the position of people in Tottenham and beyond. She came to Britain in 1963, and has worked in the community, through the unions, in the women's movement, in the local council and the Labour Party (which, controversially, deselected her from standing for a safe seat in 1989). Undeterred, Martha is still …
The case for self-defence
In this polemic, originally published in the magazine CARF in March 1979, the authors show through a number of cases, how the police are failing to protect black people from racist attacks and then how the criminal justice system compounds this failure by penalising those who are forced to defend themselves, and then ruling out of court the whole issue of racial provocation. Why, ask the authors, should other liberal freedoms take precedence over…
Eqbal Ahmad
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