Tower Hamlets’ recognition of Cockney as a “community language” celebrates the role that all English dialects play in shaping individual and community identities.
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When over a million east Londoners moved to Essex in the second half of the 20th century, they took their accent with them.
Forty years after Altab Ali’s racist murder in Whitechapel, the story of how it mobilised the Bangladeshi community.
South Africa’s government makes much of its efforts of putting more land in the hands of the previously disenfranchised black majority. Yet, many beneficiaries continue to wallow in poverty.
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Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, Rhodes University
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Professor of Sociology specialising in development., Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
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Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick
