Inter-Minority Coalition or Conflict? Identity Formation and Inter-Minority Relations between Black and Asian Communities in the UK and US
Funder: British Academy
Principal Investigator: Dr Neema Begum
Duration: April 2024 – April 2026
Funded by the British Academy, Neema's project will use an interdisciplinary, cross-country approach to interrogate how identity formation and community has developed between Black and Asian communities in the UK and US. It will identify where interracial convergence and divergence exist in social and political attitudes, memory and popular representations.
The project will be implemented in collaboration with Dr Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (Department of Music), Dr Uditi Sen (Department of History), Dr Tanika Raychaudhuri (Rice University) and Dr Nicole Burrowes (Rutgers University). It will will start in April 2024 and run for two years.
The project team are recipients of the British Academy 2024 Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2024 awards. The awards support international collaborations between early career researchers in the UK and elsewhere on internationally focused research projects of an interdisciplinary nature involving the humanities and social sciences.