Research

Dr Narayan's teaching and research interests are in the areas of:

• Caribbean creolisation
• Histories of 'race' and racism
• Racialisation and postcoloniality
• Sexualisation
• 'Racial science'
• 'Beauty' and popular culture
• Contemporary political communities
• Postcolonial urban cultures and social identities
• Music and cultural politics
• Ethnography

She is Convenor of the 'Race Forum' and organised the colloquium 'Race, Gender, Postcoloniality: A colloquium on the work of Avtar Brah' at Birkbeck in July 2009 and co-organised the conference 'After 7/7' that was held at Goldsmiths in February 2006. She is also a member of the BSA and the BSA Race Forum.