You are my Kindred Spirit: how growing up black in ‘the quiet racism of Scotland’ shaped the art and politics of Maud Sulter

By Joe Jackson, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary English Literature, University of Nottingham

She was one of the first chroniclers of the modern experience of being black in Scotland. The daughter of a Scottish mother and Ghanaian father growing up in 1960s and 1970s Glasgow, Maud Sulter experienced first-hand the racism of the period. That experience strongly registered in her art, writing, poetry and photography, informing her lifelong commitment to anti-colonial politics and the amplification of black voices – particularly women – marginalised or forgotten by history.

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