This video is based on visual ethnography of a primary school playground in Docklands east London and centres of the fight between a Black and white working class boy, and its various interpretations by teachers, playground supervisors and the children themselves. … [Read more...] about Playgrounds of Prejudice
Race Class and Imagined Community
Depicting the Gospel of Work: From Moralised Landscape to Mechanical Reproduction
Throughout the nineteeenth century, the association of heroic forms of masculinity with manual work was adumbrated less through political rhetoric than through biblical imagery and also in aesthetics of labour developed by the painters and photographers of the first industrial revolution. We will look briefly at each in turn. View the full text here: Phil Cohen … [Read more...] about Depicting the Gospel of Work: From Moralised Landscape to Mechanical Reproduction
Front Lines Back Yards
This text explores the imagery of race, and nation that has historically been associated with populist narratives of ‘Little Englandism’. It was originally given to a conference ‘Front lines, Backyards’ that I organised at the Institute of Education in London in 1997 and published in a special issue of New Formations, co-edited with Bill Schwartz the … [Read more...] about Front Lines Back Yards