Shezad Dawood, Sunday Morning (still), 2001; single-channel video; 35 minutes; courtesy Shezad Dawood Studio

Miscegenous London


Simon Dance and Shezad Dawood


What if we were to see miscegenation as a neutral and factual term, not merely relating to racial admixture but to de facto as well as organic hybridizations of architectural period and culinary style, which is in fact a good descriptor of London, not merely in the postcolonial period but for creating a continuum of racial and structural miscegenation since pre-Roman times:
“the fact that its main city was a wholly Roman creation, with no native past, marked...

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