# Hazel Waters

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{{short description|British librarian, editor and historian}}
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'''Hazel Kathleen Waters''' is a British librarian, editor and historian. She was librarian of the [Institute of Race Relations](/source/Institute_of_Race_Relations) (IRR) and an assistant editor of the journal ''[Race & Class](/source/Race_%26_Class)''. She has published on [racism](/source/racism) and [Black](/source/Black_British_people) people on the 19th-century [British stage](/source/British_theatre), particularly [Ira Aldridge](/source/Ira_Aldridge).

==Life==
Waters became a full-time employee of the [Institute of Race Relations](/source/Institute_of_Race_Relations) in 1969. She worked there as senior librarian and later as assistant editor of ''[Race & Class](/source/Race_%26_Class)'', collaborating with [Ambalavaner Sivanandan](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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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