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Explore the intersection of hope, politics, and sociology through George Frederick Watts' iconic painting "Hope" from 1886 and 1897. Delve into the complexities of society and the human experience as seen through historical events and personal reflections.
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Hope’s Ethnographer Obama, Politics and Sociology Les Back
The only way we could pay them back is to do as we did with Kewal Brothers. I have always been under the impression that they were under pressure from the police. I have seen somethings that have happened in the communities, but I didn’t think it would have ever happened to us the way it had happened to them. I just hope that the Asians realize that we shall never let them down now. Lee Hall Miner, 1985
“The Handsworth riots really excited me. I’d come to know the area. I was up all night with my radio listening, knowing some of the streets – the Soho Road, Lozells Road. It all flooded my memory, flooded back because I used to walk up and down those places.” John Bates, Miner from Mardy