Dr Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde is an academic, activist and author whose books include Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018). His first book was Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013).
Kehinde is director of the ; founder of the ; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.
Current Activity
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Areas of Expertise
- Race, racism and ethnicity
- Black Studies
- Ethnography
- Community activism
- Scholar activism
Qualifications
- PhD Sociology and Cultural Studies
- MA Social Research
- BSc Psychology
Memberships
- Black Studies Association
Teaching
- Black Studies
- City Community Culture
- Black Political Activism
Research
Kehinde is currently engaged in a project examining the role of Black radicalism in contemporary organising against racial oppression.
He is interested in in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of race, ethnicity and racism; Black Studies and how communities overcome inequality.
Postgraduate Supervision
- The future of Black community organisations. Shey Grant, 2016-2020. Director of Studies.
- Blackness, representation and desire: Using Tumblr to explore complex representations of race and sexuality on 鈥楺uality TV鈥�. Kadian Pow, 2014-17. Director of Studies.
- What makes a movement?: Strategic decision making in #BlackLivesMatter. Ashlee Cole, 2015-2018. Second supervisor.
Publications
Op-ed
Video
, BBC Three, 19 June 2018
, BBC Ideas, 5 April 2018
, BBC Newsnight, 13 October 2017
, The Guardian, 12 April 2017
, The Guardian, 18 January 2017
Writing
Has contributed to:
The Independent
Ebony Magazine
Books
Blackness in Britain book series editor with Zed Books
Andrews, K. (forthcoming) The West is Built on Racism. London: Zed Books
Andrews, K., Crenshaw, K. and Wilson, A. (forthcoming) (eds.) Blackness at the Intersection. London: Zed Books.
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Andrews, K. (2013). Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement. London: Institute of Education Press.
Book Chapters
Andrews, K. (2018) Prologue. In Rhodes Must Fall (eds) Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Tear Out the Racist Heart of Empire. London: Zed. Invited
Andrews, K. (2018) The challenge for Black Studies in the neo-liberal university. In Bhambra, G., Nisancioglu, K. and Gebrial, D. (eds) Decolonising the University: Context and Practice. London: Pluto Press. (Invited)
Andrews, K. (2018) 'Beware the northern fox': Keeping a focus on systematic racism post Trump and Brexit. In Joseph-Salisbury, R., Johnson, A. and Kamuge, B. (eds) New Directions in Anti-racist Scholarship and Activism. London: Zed Books.
Andrews, K. (2018) The Black Studies Movement in Britain: Changing the nature, not just the face of the academy. In Arday, J. (ed.) Race and Higher Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan.(Invited)
Andrews, K. (2018) Western psychosis and the human zoo. In Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation Volume 5. London: Myrdle Court Press.(Invited)
Andrews, K. (2017) Top boy and the 鈥榠conic ghetto鈥�. In Newton, D. (ed.) Adjusting the Contrast: British Television and Constructs of Race. Manchester: University of Manchester Press. 听(Invited)
Andrews. K (2016) Black is a country. In Andrews, K. and Palmer, L. (eds) Blackness in Britain. London: Routledge.
Andrews, K. (2014) Resisting racism: The Black supplementary school movement. In Clennon, O. (ed.) Alternative Education and Community Engagement: Making Education a Priority. London: Palgrave Macmillan: 56-73. (Invited)
Articles
Andrews, K. (2016) Black is a country: Building solidarity across Borders. World Policy Journal 33(1): 15-19.
Salisbury, J. and Andrews, K. (2016) Black mixed rales and the Black supplementary school movement. British Journal of Education. 听
Andrews, K. (2015). The Black Studies Movement in Britain: Addressing the crisis in British academia and social Life. Aiming Higher: Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy. London: Runnymede Trust: 30-31.
Andrews, K. (2014). From the 鈥楤ad Nigger鈥� to the 鈥楪ood Nigga鈥�: An unintended legacy of Black Power movement. Race and Class, 55(3): 22鈥�37.
Andrews, K., Bassel, L., Winter, A. (2014) Report on the British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group Conference 鈥楳apping the Field: Contemporary Theories of Race, Racism and Ethnicity鈥�. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(10): 1862-1868.
Andrews, K. (2013). Addressing the declining attendance in the Black supplementary school movement. Race Equality Teaching, 32(1): 35-39.
Andrews, K. (2013) The possibilities and dangers in urban ethnography. The Sociology Teacher, 2(3): 9-11.
Andrews, K. and Palmer, L. (2013) Why Black Studies matters and what it means. Discover Society, 2.
Narayan, J. and Andrews, K. (2015) Viewpoint: Malcolm X, Smethwick and BME Politics. Discover Society, 19.
Work With Industry
- Chair of the Harambee
Links and Social Media
Twitter:听