Kim Singletary

When Sydney Newman created a new family-orientated show for the BBC back in early 1963, he envisioned it as being, in John Reith’s terms, to “educate, inform and entertain”, one in which all stories “were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time”. It was no coincidence therefore

The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal announce  a Call for Papers for a special issue on Creolization and Trans Atlantic Blackness: The  Visual  and Material Cultures of Slavery. European colonization forced a variety of populations into extended and imbalanced contact. United by the Atlantic Ocean, the populations and cultures of the

There has been a significant shift in the boundaries between the private and public realm in recent years. The increasing indistinction between the two spheres has multiple causes, among them the rise of identity politics and the popularity of the confessional mode. The former might be said to underwrite the latter: the feminist rallying cry,