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What ‘race’ is an elf?

Andrew Smith By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Should we see fantasy novels as just that – fantasies? Andrew Smith suggests they can contain insidious racism. Last month saw the DVD release of the final film in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit franchise, the hugely successful follow-up to the same director’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. If you want to know what […]

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Statues in the park are not just figures from the past

Andrew Smith By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Statues in our public parks tell us much about the British sense of identity, argues Dr Andrew Smith. Empire is everywhere in Britain, even if it is rarely noticed. Our parks are a case in point. When I walk through Glasgow’s central park, I pass repeated symbols of Victorian imperial glory resting in what has […]

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