Adrian Hart

The University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong collaborates with the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts in Budapest to present an exhibition and publication featuring early photographic images by Dr. Dezso Bozoky. Poised to learn more about Asia and to experience China firsthand, the naval doctor Bozoky (1871-1957) traveled to the East during the first decade of the twentieth century, recorded his journey in a hitherto unpublished diary, and photographed and self-developed hundreds of images that today present rare visual resources of the former colonial city and its busy and world-famous Victoria Harbor. In an ever more developing Hong Kong, Bozoky's beautiful black-and-white and hand-colored pictures present historic documents that allow us to retrace their master's steps and offer insights into the bustling merchant town, culturally mixed society, and lush natural landscape that he encountered. Bozoky's images displayed a foreign world to his compatriots at home where they formed a treasure trove of information in early 1900s Budapest, just as they do today.

Six performative stories and interior monologues (or dialogues with the self) stage the invisible narrator's private engagement with otherness, the absolute, certainty, uncertainty, the world and the notion of the first person singular. In terms both comic and serious, fiction, philosophy and poetry merge into one another.

These five monologues stage the unknown narrator's unending, private dialogue with the Other and the Self. In turns both comic and serious, fiction verges into philosophy and philosophy into fiction, order into disorder and disorder into order.

These five monologues stage the narrator's unending, private engagement with the Other and the Self. In turns both comic and serious, fiction verges into philosophy and philosophy into fiction, order into disorder and disorder into order.

In twenty-first century Britain, children of all ethnic groups play together at school and in their neighbourhoods. They grow up together, and have children together. The ongoing rise of the 'mixed race' population shows the extent to which the awareness of ‘racial difference’ has disappeared from people’s everyday experience: a fact, surely, that anti-racist campaigners should celebrate.And yet in recent years, playgrounds and classrooms have endured unprecedented interference in the form of official racist-incident reporting, training on the importance of racial etiquette, and the reinforcement of racial identities. In workplaces and public institutions, self-styled ‘anti-racist’ campaigns seize on bad jokes, playground insults, and clumsy behaviours as evidence that racism is on the rise, and that more rules are needed to control people’s attitudes and behaviours.How do we make sense of this reality gap, between the genuine diversity of everyday life and the racialised assumptions that drive ‘anti-racist’ policy? In That’s Racist! Adrian Hart reflects on his experience of anti-racist campaigning in 1980s East London, and his later studies of allegedly racist behaviour among primary school children, to show how the language of anti-racism has been co-opted by a divisive new policy agenda.In Britain today, it is no longer racism that sets us against each other, but the demand that we should be hyper-sensitive about each other’s differences. As we try to navigate this new landscape, the first casualty is freedom of speech.