Coloured Souls

By Jamie Gladstone

Society & Culture Education Social Sciences

What's Coloured Souls about?

Welcome to coloured souls. This podcast covers education, literature and decoloniality viewed through a critical race lens. Join in the discussion by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting my website, www.colouredsouls.co.uk

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Coloured Souls episodes:

12.04.2023
S03 E03: Into the Pluriverse: An Introduction to Pluriversal Thinking
How do you define normal? Is it in your use of language? Your religious beliefs? How is it that we can be at the centre of our own universe, yet in orbit in others whilst interacting with entirely different epistemologies,...
11.06.2023
S03 E02: Combating the legacy of educational subnormality: African Informed Pedagogy
Britain’s education system, a system based on oppression and subjugation, has done little to nothing to positively impact upon the British Caribbean community. From the categorisation of Caribbean children as ‘educationally sub-normal’ to the cycle of exclusions, Pupil Referral Units...
10.01.2023
S03 E01: Cyclical incarceration: The PRU to Prison pipeline
PRUs are an alternative education provision for those who have been excluded from school or are unable to attend mainstream education. This pipeline metaphor is used to identify the process through which students are pushed out of schools into alternative...
03.20.2023
S02 E06 Inside Out: Being an Indigenous Outsider
Over the course of my master’s degree, the concept of assimilation came up time and time again and I found myself questioning why that was the case. What is it about assimilation that has troubled so many communities, individuals and...
02.20.2023
S02 E05 The violence of Epistemicide
The ways in which a particular culture formulates its knowledge is intricately bound up with the very identity of its people, their way of making sense of the world and the value system that holds that world view in place....
01.09.2023
S02 E04 To be or not to be: the stickiness of language
The English language is far from perfect. Not just in the context of being unable to express love in as many ways as some others, but in the stickiness of our titles. Be they diagnoses or racial stereotypes, in this...
12.05.2022
S02 E03 Educational subjugation
Whilst extreme forms of racial segregation have not been enforced on Britain’s shores, other insidious forms have been integrated into the culture. One such form of segregation operates from very early in the life of many twenty-first century Black Britons;...
11.07.2022
S02 E02 The misnomer of diversity in Britain's institutions
In this episode, we seek to explore how modern Britain’s interpretation of diversity manifests with global majority faces leveraged as a method of demonstrating inclusivity in the educational institution whilst their voices are silenced both in the classroom and in...
10.09.2022
S02 E01 The mis-selling of Black history month
In the United Kingdom, the month of October is dedicated to Black history; a month to celebrate all of the contributions that black Britons have made to the country. Whilst it is of course an important part of the calendar,...
03.05.2022
06 The Shattered Illusions of Caribbean Migrants
In the final episode of Season one, we dive into the poignant novel The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon in order to discuss how the illusions of Caribbean migrants were shattered upon their arrival and over the course of their...
02.05.2022
05 The Privilege Gap of the 2020 Pandemic
The pandemic of 2020 shone a light on a deeply divided workplace: the highly paid, salaried graduate elites on one side, and the workers in dead-end jobs, lacking basic rights or entitlements, on the other. Those who were able to...
01.08.2022
04 Do we Subjugate Ourselves with Language?
Throughout history, we have seen language used to discriminate, humiliate and subjugate people of colour. So today, we will explore: Do we subjugate ourselves with our language?**Warning: The 'N' word is used in this episode. **Just listen to many rap...
12.11.2021
03 What is Critical Race Theory?
On today’s show, we will discuss CRT. What is it? What is its purpose and why do we study it?Should we study it?CRT is a thoughtful and multi-faceted approach to understanding how racism operates across society, including through both individual...
11.13.2021
02 The Salience of War in school
On this show we will discuss a topic that is mentioned and covered in great detail throughout the UK in our educational institutions, the media, books and countless films. We will explore how the second world war has affected and...
10.15.2021
01 Barriers to Progression
I was reading through the report by Ainscow et al: PRIMARY SCHOOLS RESPONDING TO DIVERSITY: BARRIERS AND POSSIBILITIES (2015)In the report they stated that we need to ask three key questions:- How effective is the English primary school system in...
10.10.2021
Coloured Souls Season one Pilot
Hello and welcome to season one of Coloured Souls. Here is as brief introduction of what this podcast is all about! The ultimate goal for this podcast is to contribute to and continue the ongoing conversation surrounding diversity, identity, critical...

What's Coloured Souls about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Coloured Souls episodes:

S03 E03: Into the Pluriverse: An Introduction to Pluriversal Thinking

S03 E02: Combating the legacy of educational subnormality: African Informed Pedagogy

S03 E01: Cyclical incarceration: The PRU to Prison pipeline

S02 E06 Inside Out: Being an Indigenous Outsider

S02 E05 The violence of Epistemicide

S02 E04 To be or not to be: the stickiness of language

S02 E03 Educational subjugation

S02 E02 The misnomer of diversity in Britain's institutions

S02 E01 The mis-selling of Black history month

06 The Shattered Illusions of Caribbean Migrants

05 The Privilege Gap of the 2020 Pandemic

04 Do we Subjugate Ourselves with Language?

03 What is Critical Race Theory?

02 The Salience of War in school

01 Barriers to Progression

Coloured Souls Season one Pilot