Leeds Lit Fest presents

In Skin Deep, Gavin Evans explores the re-emergence of race science, tracing its roots back to early scientific theories and long-standing prejudices which don’t stand up to proper scientific scrutiny but are widespread on the internet.

Gavin Evans is a lecturer at Birkbeck University in London, grew up in the apartheid era in South Africa and has written widely on race. 

Gavin will be in conversation with Max Farrar, Emeritus Professor at Leeds Beckett University.