It’s time for Warwick Law School’s Annual Black History Month Lecture.

With Professor Gary Younge, University of Manchester.

The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy between race-based mythologies around the second world war and black involvement in the war and what that tells us about Europe as a whole and how black people’s presence here is misunderstood.

How would conversations about responsibility, obligation, entitlement, sacrifice, patriotism, immigration, integration, welfare, equality and justice be understood when it applied to black people if their contributions to the war were fully acknowledged. This talk will highlight these issues with specific reference to the decision to ensure only white French troops could be seen to liberate Paris and the scene, the day after the Liberation, in which a Gabonese soldier, Georges Dukson, effectively photobombs General De Gaulle as he parades along the Champs Elysee.

This event is organised by Warwick Law School and is Shared by Resonate.