Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
@m-latchoumaya.bsky.social
Research Associate @uomsociology; Race and ethnicity, whiteness, Frenchness, Indian indenture in the Caribbean, South Asian identities and diaspora
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/manuela.latchoumaya
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/manuela.latchoumaya
Pinned
Negotiating the boundaries of Blackness and naming whiteness: the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent
This article explores the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France. To do so, it centres the voices of two groups with conn...
www.tandfonline.com
My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this.
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016.
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press!
Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma… | ...
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press!
Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma rac...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016.
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge
📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge
📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot
New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
@ersjournal.com
@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
@ersjournal.com
@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
www.manchester.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot
New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
@ersjournal.com
@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
@ersjournal.com
@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
What if you had a French passport, spoke true French, but were never seen as truly French?
Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies.
Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...
Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies.
Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...
Meet the expert: Manuela Latchoumaya
YouTube video by The University of Manchester- Faculty of Humanities
youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
What if you had a French passport, spoke true French, but were never seen as truly French?
Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies.
Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...
Research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from @manchester.ac.uk, explores the lived experiences of French people whose families come from former French colonies.
Listen here👇 youtube.com/shorts/TWZES...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working‐Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
This paper examines how working-class young people enroled at college in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. It argues that university represents a great risk, associated with high...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
#ERSNew🐣🔓 By exploring the experiences of French citizens of Indian descent, this article advances our understanding of racialisation processes and racial formation in colour-blind contexts. Article by @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513376
June 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#ERSNew🐣🔓 By exploring the experiences of French citizens of Indian descent, this article advances our understanding of racialisation processes and racial formation in colour-blind contexts. Article by @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2513376
My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this.
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
Negotiating the boundaries of Blackness and naming whiteness: the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent
This article explores the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France. To do so, it centres the voices of two groups with conn...
www.tandfonline.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this.
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Negotiating the boundaries of #Blackness and naming #whiteness: The racialisation and identity formation process of #FrenchCitizensOfIndianDescent
Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya
The University of Manchester
Coming soon!
#Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation
Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya
The University of Manchester
Coming soon!
#Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation
May 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Negotiating the boundaries of #Blackness and naming #whiteness: The racialisation and identity formation process of #FrenchCitizensOfIndianDescent
Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya
The University of Manchester
Coming soon!
#Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation
Author: Manuela Pauline Latchoumaya
The University of Manchester
Coming soon!
#Frenchness #Racialisation #identityFormation
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
SEMINAR. Please join us online or in person (Manchester)
📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University
📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University
📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
SEMINAR. Please join us online or in person (Manchester)
📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University
📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
🗣 @drsuriyah.bsky.social Cardiff University
📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Our next seminar:
‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy
🗣Brett St Louis
📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online)
@uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhelpful-...
‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy
🗣Brett St Louis
📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online)
@uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhelpful-...
‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy
Brett St Louis shares his research on the contentious issue of labelling ethnic categories.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our next seminar:
‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy
🗣Brett St Louis
📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online)
@uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhelpful-...
‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy
🗣Brett St Louis
📆1pm, Thurs 10 April 2025 (Manchester/online)
@uomsociology.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhelpful-...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn
📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester
All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester
All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
March 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn
📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester
All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester
All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Our next seminar:
'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing'
🗣Dr Yunis Alam
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online)
@uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-yours...
'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing'
🗣Dr Yunis Alam
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online)
@uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-yours...
Free yourself: research, politics and doing (your) right thing
Yunis Alam shares his research on insider research, ethnography and the extent to which research can be a political venture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Our next seminar:
'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing'
🗣Dr Yunis Alam
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online)
@uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-yours...
'Free yourself: research, politics & doing (your) right thing'
🗣Dr Yunis Alam
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 20 Feb 2025 (Manchester/Online)
@uomsoss.bsky.social @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-yours...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history!
The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’
🔗👇🏽
www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...
The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’
🔗👇🏽
www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...
The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’
This essay examines the racialized history of British pubs in the context of contemporary laments about declining numbers of pubs.
www.pointshistory.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history!
The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’
🔗👇🏽
www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...
The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’
🔗👇🏽
www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday!
www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78
www.history.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday!
www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Our next seminar is from Ajmal Hussain, Thurs 16 Jan. Join us online/in person 👇🏾
SEMINAR
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city
🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)
@uomsociology.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city
🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)
@uomsociology.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
Leaving being ‘left behind’:itineraries of operation & resistance in Stoke
Ajmal Hussain shares his research on race and class in Stoke-on-Trent, popularly known as the 'Brexit Capital of England'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Our next seminar is from Ajmal Hussain, Thurs 16 Jan. Join us online/in person 👇🏾
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
January 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today.
If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening.
One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening.
One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
January 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today.
If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening.
One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening.
One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”.
(🎥 Luc Auffret)
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
SEMINAR
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city
🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)
@uomsociology.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city
🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)
@uomsociology.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
Leaving being ‘left behind’:itineraries of operation & resistance in Stoke
Ajmal Hussain shares his research on race and class in Stoke-on-Trent, popularly known as the 'Brexit Capital of England'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 11:59 AM
SEMINAR
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city
🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)
@uomsociology.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city
🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome)
@uomsociology.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
December 16, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Reposted by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
📽WATCH:
'Back to Black? Identity politics in treacherous times'
Claire Alexander's lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfH...
'Back to Black? Identity politics in treacherous times'
Claire Alexander's lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfH...
Identities 30th Anniversary Lecture: Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times
YouTube video by Identities Journal
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:44 PM
📽WATCH:
'Back to Black? Identity politics in treacherous times'
Claire Alexander's lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfH...
'Back to Black? Identity politics in treacherous times'
Claire Alexander's lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfH...