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....
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...
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...
The Dr Louis Sterling Reading Room
Our recent visit to the Louise Da-Cocodia Education Trust to look at a new collection of books they have acquired from Dr Louis Sterling, a Jamaican s...
Earth Day 2023: 15 Books on Refugeeism and the Climate Crisis
Our theme for Earth Day this year, at the AIU RACE Centre, is “Environmental Devastation and its impact on Refugeeism”. When environmental devasta...
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...
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...