We Need To Talk About Whiteness - With Dr Dionne Taylor

Ep49: Whiteness and colourism - Dr Dionne Taylor is a Senior lecturer at Birmingham City University where she teaches Sociology and Black studies and is the MA Black Studies Course leader. Dionne’s research looks at the lived experiences of young Black British women’s interpretation and engagement with representations of Black womanhood and she was recently in conversation with Little Mix’s Leigh- Anne Pinnock for her BBC documentary “Colourism and Me”. She joins me to discuss the roots of colourism, representations of blackness - and whiteness, and THAT Little Mix controversy....