To mark International Women’s Day 2025 we’d like to introduce Marilyn Cuffy, and the archive she donated to us. We feature Marilyn not only becaus...
Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism: Then and Now – A Reading List
We are shocked and appalled by the racist, Islamophobic and fascist violence of recent weeks. This violence is the result of anti-migrant, Islamophobi...
Re-evaluating America’s “Rainbow Coalition”: The Lou Kushnick Interviews
Guest post by Dr Andrew Fearnley, Lecturer in Twentieth Century US History and Programme Director for American Studies, University of Manchester Betwe...
Introducing Dynamic Collections funded project; Community Led Collecting Fit for the Future
By Laila Benhaida, Community Archivist and Project Lead; Community Led Collecting Fit for the Future We are excited to announce that we have begun a n...
Stephen Lawrence Day 2024- Books and Archive Resources
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...
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 ...