E086 Janine Francois: Museums, rest and reparations

Lecturer, PhD researcher and curator, Janine joined us to critically examine the role of British art museums in upholding colonial imaginations of art and culture. *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this* Reading: Paul Gilroy, There Aint No Black in the Union Jack, Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter, Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis, the Art and Science of Portraiture. Listening: Art in the Age of Black Girl Magic - Bolanle Tajudeen https://open.spotify.com/show/5LojYy6slSP1B6p63n8luy Oscar G - Gotta Keep Movin- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXfewt6NMU Busy Being Black - Josh Rivers (UK Black Pride) -https://open.spotify.com/show/1sMQ0TkalZ7SVfm6jpyg4u Useful link - https://engage.org/resources/cultural-identity-and-change/island-to-island/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bbay/sleep-gap-black-slavery-reparations-black-power-naps https://www.tate.org.uk/research/studentships/current/janine-francois