Book Review: Jurelle, Bruce La Marr. How to go mad without losing your mind: Madness and black radical creativity. This guest post comes from Jianing ...
A Black History Manifesto for Manchester
Every year as October approaches there is a flurry of activity around Black History. For Black History Month 2023, we're taking a different approach. ...
Mayor John Lindsay and the New York Teachers Strike of 1968
Student Olivia Howe's research into the RACE Centre's collection on the 1968 teacher's strike in New York and the mayor's response...
Paul Robeson in Manchester
Student Anya Carr's guest blog post on Paul Robeson's visit to Manchester in 1949....
Racial Discrimination in America’s Construction Trade Unions
UoM student Elizabeth Owens writes on racial discrimination in the AFL-CIO in the late 1960s....
When Musical Traditions Meet and Inspire Project
For the last couple of years, we have supported Emmaneula Yogolelo to deliver her recent Arts Council funded project ‘When Musical Traditions Meet a...
A Guide to Searching Archive and Library Collections at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre
This is a step-by-step guide to searching the library and archive collections held at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre. ...
South Asian Heritage Month: Sri Lankan Reading List
Within our year-long programme around South Asian Heritage Month and its theme of Stories to Tell, we will be focusing on the theme of Making Sri Lank...
Refugee Week – Nurturing Compassion and Critical Thinking
During Refugee Week 2023 the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre in Manchester Central Library held a roundtable discussion with a group of invited particip...
Changes to our Library: the Gender, Relationships and the Family section
How we reviewed our Gender, Relationships and Family section of the library and the changes we've made....