Looking back in anger at 'Cool Britannia' with Jason Arday
Looking back in anger at ‘Cool Britannia’ with Jason Arday The 1990s are remembered for Britpop and New Labour. But it was also a time of inequality and racism. Sociologist and Oasis fan Jason Arday draws on his South London teenage years to interrogate the period from an ethnic minority perspective that has for too long been neglected.A discussion about music and identity, inclusion and exclusion, racism and resistance. For readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge, Robin DiAngelo - and Oasis fans, too. Podcast listeners can get a year's subscription to New Humanist magazine for just £13.50. Head to newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe and enter the code WITHREASONPresenters: Samira Shackle & Alice BlochProducer: Alice BlochMusic by DanosongsReading/Listening List: Jason Arday (2019) 'Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova'Jason Arday & Heidi Mirza (2018) 'Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy'bell hooks (2004) 'We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity'Kimberle Crenshaw (2017) 'On Intersectionality : Essential Writings'Skin (2020) It Takes Blood and GutsOasis (1994) Definitely MaybeLauryn Hill (1998) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Bloc Party (2005) Silent Alarm