Welcome to Diasporama: A Cure for the Mellinnium Blues

Phil Cohen is director of CNER and reader in Cultural Studies. His research interests include the history of multiracist Britain, the cultural geography of contemporary racism (especially in East London), youth arts and urban multiculture, new approaches to multicultural education in schools and universities. His most recent publications are Rethinking the Youth Question (Macmillan 1997) and The Last Island- Essays on England and the Dreaming of 'Race' (CNER 1998) Cohen's essay explores the notion of the term Diaspora and examines the historical and political meanings of the word and the current complex contempoary levels of meaning.