In ‘Who You Callin' a Nigger?’ Howe looks at intra-racial tensions amongst minority ethnic communities in Britain. As Black and Asian youths in the inner cities regard each other with increasing suspicion, exchanging both insults and blows, Howe wonders what happened to the spirit of anti-racist solidarity that bound them together in the struggles of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The myth of multiculturalism is exploded as the divide-and-rule tactics of the Empire are shown to be alive and well in contemporary Britain. The result is an increasingly factional racism that Howe sees destroying the very groups that espouse it.

Trinidad-born Darcus Howe is well known as a journalist, anti-racism campaigner and Black civil rights activist.
Always outspoken and never predictable, Howe has been politically active since arriving in Britain in the 1960s. He reached a wider public in the ’80s with his Channel 4 current affairs programme ‘The Devil’s Advocate’. Since then he has made several documentaries for both BBC and Channel 4, including the acclaimed ‘White Tribe’, a journey into the dark and troubled heart of Middle England. He is now a regular columnist for the New Statesman.
Following the screening of ‘Who You Callin' a Nigger?’ Darcus will be interviewed by Daniel Jewesbury, an artist and writer based in Belfast.

Other films in this section:

• Birth of A Nation
• Fear eats the Soul
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• Romper Stomper
• The Letter
• To Kill a Mockingbird