For 2024, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre commemorates Stephen Lawrence Day by sharing our collections to understand race and colonialism within the...
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 collection...
‘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, Acad...
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; delegat...
Muslims Like Us- Islamophobia Awareness Month
Muslims Like Us event at Manchester Central Library, (21 Nov 2023) As part of Islamophobia Awareness Month, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre hosted a...
Book Review: ‘The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour’
This guest post comes from Qianxia Chen, an MA student at the Institute of Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester. Qianxia recently comple...
‘Not a race riot’: Looking back on the 1981 Moss Side uprising.
Marking the 42nd anniversary of the Hytner Report, Claire Fox, Academic Director of the AIU RACE Centre, draws on the Elouise Edwards collection to co...
Book Review: How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
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...