Gavin Schaffer is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of Birmingham (UK). The author of Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 and The Vision of a Nation: Making Multiculturalism on British Television, 1960-1980, Gavin is also the co-organizer (with Brett Ashley Kaplan) of the upcoming conference at Birmingham, Comparative Approaches to Black and Jewish Studies in Britain and the U.S. Gavin’s visit and the conference are supported by a generous grant from BRIDGE.