During a brief trip to Durham University, Chantelle spoke with Sol Gamsu about the future of the Labour party, what went wrong in GE19 and whether the left of the party will ever be able to tackle race, class and racism(s).

In this slightly shorter episode (stupid London traffic!), Julia joined us to talk about her long career in media, music and TV and began to talk us through her MA dissertation on women in drum and bass

Useful links-

https://www.patreon.com/posts/theyre-not-in-it-30057937

This week Darrel joined us to discuss his work with young people in London schools and how studying his BA in Black studies at BCU has helped informed his youth work and activism.

Useful links -

The Young Readers, Future Leaders Project ://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/youngreaders

This week Utsa joined us to discuss his PhD research on the sociology of the Indian diaspora; leisure practices and identities of Indian diasporic children. A truly fascinating discussion!

Useful links-

https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/utsa-mukherjee(5a723d97-c57c-4927-9b75-cda6685026c3).html

In this episode we discuss how popular science is re-inscribing race through ancestry tests, DNA and personalised diets.

Useful links -

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/tinasikka.html

Sikka T. Against Twenty-First-Century Race Science. Jacobin, 2019. Available at: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/06/racism-science-genetic-testing-racecraft.

Sikka T. Politics of Categorization: Race and Blood. Sociology Lens, 2019. Available at: https://www.sociologylens.net/topics/race-and-ethnicity/politics-categorization-race-blood/24530.

Stephen Ashe joined us to discuss the formation of trade unions, how Thatcher attacked them and left wing racism that manifests (and persists) within work and the union movement.

Useful links-

https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/racism-at-work

http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/ethnicity/2016/11/racism-at-work-still-persists-time-for-urgent-action/

https://manchester.academia.edu/StephenDAshe

Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.

In our final episode of this series Dan Renwick joined us to make sense of the General Election Result 2019.

Dan Renwick is a visual creative, videographer, youth worker, contributing author to After Grenfell, producer of Failed by the State, and supporter and official videographer of Grenfell United

This week were joined by Aurelien and Aaron to discuss the themes in their forthcoming book (2020) - Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream.

Useful links -

Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter. 2018. ‘Whiteness, Populism and the Racialisation of the Working Class in the United Kingdom and the United States’, Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26:5: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1070289X.2018.1552440?journalCode=gide20

Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter. 2017. ‘Articulations of Islamophobia: from the extreme to the mainstream?’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40:13: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2017.1312008?journalCode=rers20

Katy Brown, Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter. 2019. 'Populist' can be a weasel word for 'racist', Open Democracy, 16 October: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/populist-can-be-a-weasel-word-for-racist-and-thats-dangerous/

Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter. 2018. ‘Understanding the mainstreaming of the far right’, Open Democracy, 26 August: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/understanding-mainstreaming-of-far-right/

Tissot and Ronda describe the East End through their lived experiences as both young people and adults.

In this episode also we also attempt to carefully lay out the class and race(d) dynamics of our own working class roots and explore the tension in trying to talk about racism we have experienced whilst also trying not to demonise and exceptionalise working class (especially white) people.

Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.