Kehinde Andrews | |
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 Andrews in 2020 | |
| Born | Kehinde Nkosi Andrews January 1983 (age 42) |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, author |
| Employer | Birmingham City University |
| Known for | First Black studies professor in the UK |
Kehinde Nkosi Andrews (born January 1983) [1] is a British academic and author specialising in Black studies. He was the first Black studies professor in the United Kingdom.
Andrews is of British African-Caribbean heritage. [2] He grew up in Birmingham, the son of a half-white English, half-Jamaican mother who was a university graduate and was born in Britain, and a Jamaican father who had come to the UK in his early teens. [3] Andrews earned a PhD in sociology and cultural studies from the University of Birmingham in 2011. His thesis was entitled Back to Black: Black Radicalism and the Supplementary School Movement. [4]
Andrews is a professor of Black studies in the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. [5] He is the director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity, [6] and co-chair of the UK Black Studies Association. [7] Andrews is the first Black Studies professor in the UK and led the establishment of the first Black Studies programme in Europe at Birmingham City University. [8] [9] [10]
Andrews regularly appears in the media discussing issues of race and racism, colonialism and slavery, and British nationalism. He contributes to The Guardian , [11] [12] The Independent , [13] New Statesman , [14] CNN, [15] OpenDemocracy, [16] and often appears as a guest on the BBC [17] [18] [19] [20] and Good Morning Britain . [21] [22] [23] [24]
In 2016, Andrews criticized universities in the United Kingdom for institutional racism, specifically the lack of diversity in students' assigned readings. [8]
In 2019, Andrews appeared on Good Morning Britain, where he argued that the Royal Air Force bombing of Nazi Germany constituted a war crime [25] and equated the racial views of Winston Churchill to those of Adolf Hitler. [26]
Andrews narrated the 2018 film The Psychosis of Whiteness, which explores race and racism through cinematic representations of the slave trade. [27]
In July 2019, Andrews criticized the idea that prominent non-white members of the Conservative Party automatically represent racial progress, saying that a "cabinet packed with ministers with brown skin wearing Tory masks represents the opposition of racial progress". [28]
In 2020, he was interviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books discussing Malcolm X and the question of violence in Black radicalism. [29]
In June 2021, Andrews described Elizabeth II as "the number one symbol of white supremacy in the entire world". [30] Following her death in September 2022, he called for the abolition of the monarchy. [31]
In September 2024, Andrews was investigated by police for using a racial slur against the Black political commenter Calvin Robinson. [32]
While critiquing books written by academics as a "con", Andrews said the work of many academics is "devastatingly bad" and stated one of his peers had written something so bad that "he writes like he has a brain injury". [33]
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