RSS FeedFacebookSearch
Gary Younge
Archive
I've changed my mind about racism
The decade that has ended with Nick Griffin on Question Time and two BNP MEPs started with me being very optimistic about the future of race relations in Britain. With the broadly positive response to the Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence, which had just been released, I thought a paradigmatic shift in the way that we thought about both Britain and race had occurred that could possibly be thwarted but not reversed. This was not a popular view among anti-racist activists at the time. Indeed, for about a year I had to get used to white people calling me naive about racism, which was a first.
Smalltown America's growing voice of rage is a force to be reckoned with
One of the paradoxes of being a foreign reporter in smalltown America is that within any one day, you will hear people insist that they stand at the centre of global affairs and simultaneously act as though they reside at the very fringes of international interest. As Americans, they feel their country stands as a beacon to the outside world – a showcase for freedom, liberty, democracy and material comfort. As inhabitants of smalltown America, they feel marginalised from the national narrative and isolated from the rest of the world. Within the span of a single conversation you will be told that America is the best country on earth and be asked why you – or indeed anyone – would come to their particular town.


Snow covers tree branches in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London in February 2009. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
A year to remember
Larry Elliott, 16 September 2008
© Gary Younge. All Rights reserved, site built with tlc
Dispatches From The Diaspora
latest book

'An outstanding chronicler of the African diaspora.'

Bernardine Evaristo

 follow on twitter
“I was the only kid of colour on the track. And I’d be getting pushed around. But then I could always turn their en… https://t.co/uhWaHr0G73
RT @guardianlive: Don't miss former Guardian columnist @garyyounge live in London or via the livestream, as he discusses his new collection…
RT @DinLinLtd: New video by Channel 4 News: “Retro, vicious racism is just under the skin” - Gary Younge https://t.co/OZANTXKFWf #dinlin #d
RT @TheWansteadtap: Absolutely thrilled and honoured to be hosting this event. Both @garyyounge and @trillingual are incredible writers and…
I'll be in conversation with @MarinaHyde about her wonderful anthology "What Just Happened" on June 13 in Brighton.… https://t.co/2zeO2o2T5U
"Do you worry about pissing people off?" "My very existence as a black journalist pisses some people off. So no. I… https://t.co/O8nkJrVDZJ
RT @hardoond: On today’s #R4MediaShow, @katierazz’s fascinating interview with @garyyounge in which he reflects on his dispatches from Amer…
@Nic_ky___R @mowords @BBCRadio4 Yes. It was recorded two weeks ago.
"At university we were told 'Dog bites man is not a story. Man bites a dog is a story.' But sometimes you have to a… https://t.co/pblrgSLhMO
© Gary Younge. All Rights reserved, site built with tlc