Race Forum & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Lecture: 'Reframing the Windrush Scandal Through Oral Histories and Community Memory'
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
‘Reframing the Windrush Scandal Through Oral Histories and Community Memory’
Dr Juanita Cox, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Taking place in room B20 Malet Street, Birkbeck Main Building
This talk explores the Windrush Scandal through a groundbreaking oral history project that captures the voices of those directly affected, alongside their advocates and community leaders. It challenges official narratives, highlights the broader Commonwealth context, and reflects on how history is archived and remembered. Emphasizing dignity, resistance, and agency, the presentation offers a powerful re-examination of citizenship, identity, and justice in modern Britain.
Dr Juanita Cox is a Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and co-curator of the recent Senate House Library exhibition, In the Grip of Change: The Caribbean and its British Diaspora (Oct 2024-April 2025). She was Research Fellow on the three-year AHRC-funded ‘The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context’ project and an earlier scoping project on the relationship of the Windrush Generation to the British State (1948-2018). Dr Cox is also a trustee on the board of the Oral History Society, co-founder of Guyana SPEAKS and serves on the editorial board of Black Histories: Dialogues
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