Hazel Kathleen Waters is a British librarian, editor and historian. She was librarian of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and an assistant editor of the journal ''

Race & Class ''Race & Class'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal on contemporary racism and imperialism. It is published quarterly by Sage Publications on behalf of the Institute of Race Relations and is interdisciplinary, publishing material across the human ...

''. She has published on

racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

and

Black Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have o ...

people on the 19th-century British stage, particularly

Ira Aldridge Ira Frederick Aldridge (July 24, 1807 – August 7, 1867) was an American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portrayal of Shakespearean characters. James Hewlett and Aldridge are regarded as the first Black Ameri ...

Life

Waters became a full-time employee of the Institute of Race Relations in 1969. She worked there as senior librarian and later as assistant editor of ''

'', collaborating with

Ambalavaner Sivanandan Ambalavaner Sivanandan (20 December 1923 – 3 January 2018), commonly referred to as A. Sivanandan or "Siva", was a Sri Lankan and British novelist, activist and writer, emeritus director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), a London-based ...

. In 2002 Waters gained a PhD from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

, with a thesis on the black presence on the English stage between the late-18th and mid-19th century. Her resultant monograph, ''Racism on the Victorian stage'' (2007), was welcomed as an "important book".

Works

* (ed. with

) ''Register of research on Commonwealth immigrants in Britain''. London: Institute of Race Relations, 1970. * (with Cathie Lloyd) 'France: One Culture, One People?'', ''Race & Class'' 32:3 (January–March 1991), pp.49–65 * (ed.) ''Resource directory on 'race' and racism in social work''. London: Institute of Race Relations, 1993. * 'The Great Irish Famine and the Rise of Anti-Irish Racism', ''Race & Class'' 37:1 (1995), pp.95–108 * 'Ira Aldridge and the Battlefield of Race', ''Race & Class'', 45:1 (2003), pp.1–30 * ''Racism on the Victorian stage: representation of slavery and the black character''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. * 'Ira Aldridge's Fight For Equality', in Bernth Lindfors, ed., ''Ida Aldridge: the African Roscius''. University of Rochester Press, 2007. * ''Harriet Beecher Stowe's Other Novel — Dred on the London Stage'', ''Race & Class'' 53:2 (2011), pp.81–82

References

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