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 ...
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....
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. ...
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....
Book review – The Celox and the Clot
‘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...
Book review – Homegoing
‘Homegoing’ is the debut novel of Yaa Gyasi, a Ghanian-American author....The novel showcases the complex experiences of seven generations, coveri...