{{short description|British librarian, editor and historian}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL | onlysourced=yes}} '''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.<ref name=IRR>{{cite web | title=People | website=Institute of Race Relations | url=https://irr.org.uk/about/people/ | access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite thesis | author=Hazel Kathleen Waters | title=How Oroonoko became Jim Crow: the black presence on the English stage from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century | type=PhD | year=2002 | publisher=University of London }}</ref> Her resultant monograph, ''Racism on the Victorian stage'' (2007), was welcomed as an "important book".<ref>{{cite journal |author=Sarah Meer | title=Hazel Waters. Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (review)| journal=The Review of English Studies | volume=59 | issue=240 | date=June 2008| pages=474–476 }}</ref>
==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
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