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Explore our extensive archives documenting local Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community history.

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We deliver talks and training at community events, workshops and conferences.

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Our library collection has over 14,780
titles, covering topics including culture
and identity, history, politics, and local
studies.

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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust is a specialist open-access library and archive, focusing on the study of race, migration and thinking about race, anti-racist activism and the fight for social justice. We are recognised as a centre of excellence in oral history work, Global Majority community-led collecting and ethical community engagement. We work ethically and sensitively with Global Majority communities to explore, document and share their histories, cultures and experiences.
We work with the heritage sector to deliver ethical and anti-racist collections-based practice, and to build anti-racist organisations.

 

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Latest blog posts

An assessment of the UK’s hostile environment: societal and policy implications from Windrush to the present day 

In this blog post, Jon Davies, Rose Broad and Michelle Corallo (Department of Criminology, University of Manchester) draw upon three of the collections held at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre to explore how and why the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ has evolved over time.

Book Review: The Celox and the Clot by Hafsah Aneela Bashir

‘My life is my own’ – Brown Bodies

The Celox and the Clot delves deep into South Asian culture exploring sensitive themes of war, family, and the unheard voices of women.

‘Anarchists, agitators and looters’: Why media coverage matters

In this third and final blog post looking back at the Moss Side Uprising in 1981, working with the resources from the Elouise Edwards Collection, Academic Director of the AIU RACE Centre, Claire Fox, reflects on the motivations for representing the disturbances in the ways outlined in the previous post, and highlights that this is neither an isolated occurrence or something that only relates to its time.

Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong’o; Pan Africanism and Grassroots Movements Symposium at The Windrush Centre

We were recently honoured to be invited to introduce the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre  and its collections to Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong’o; delegate from Kenya and other guests of the Racial Justice Network’s symposium at The Windrush Centre in Manchester (11 October 2023). Community Archivist, Laila, talks about the event here.

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