Hazel Waters Explained

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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. She has published on racism and Black people on the 19th-century British stage, particularly Ira Aldridge.

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 Race & Class, collaborating with Ambalavaner Sivanandan.^[1]

In 2002 Waters gained a PhD from the University of London, with a thesis on the black presence on the English stage between the late-18th and mid-19th century.^[2] Her resultant monograph, Racism on the Victorian stage (2007), was welcomed as an "important book".^[3]

Works

(ed. with Ambalavaner Sivanandan) 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

Notes and References

Web site: People . Institute of Race Relations . 16 April 2022.
Hazel Kathleen Waters . How Oroonoko became Jim Crow: the black presence on the English stage from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century . PhD . 2002 . University of London .
Sarah Meer . Hazel Waters. Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (review). The Review of English Studies . 59 . 240 . June 2008. 474–476 .