Subject Index: Race & Racism

Discrimination due to race. Also see Slavery & Resistance and Colonialism.

The Blood Never Dried. A People's History of the British Empire

Type: Book Review
John Newsinger | Bookmarks Publications | 2006 | Book Type:
9781905192120
This year is seeing a veritable frenzy of spectaculars encouraging the sad old supremecist idea that Being British is something to be jolly well/fucking proud of, what with all our institutions and history and achievements. Our diversity in particular has been cited as a significant reason we got lumbered with the Olympics and the French didn't.... More →

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organising in Radical Times

Type: Book Review
Amy Sonnie and James Tracey | Melville House | 2011 | Book Type:
Hillbilly-Nationalists-320x410
The history of radical 'White' activism in the 1960s and 70s in the USA is dominated by the the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a large organisation which was very influential in the creation of what is known as the 'New Left'. Much has been written about their activities in the Universities particularly around resistance to the Vietnam... More →

Remembering Olive Collective

Type: Radical History Listing
Do you remember Olive Morris? was a community art project seeking to bring to wider public attention the history of Brixton-based activist Olive Morris (1952-1979). In her short life, Olive Morris co-founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group and the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD) and was part of the British Black... More →

"Can't Do Nothin' If You Ain't Bad"': The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers

Type: Event
Date:
With: Keiron Farrow,
Life Before Thatcher
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers was formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. The organisation united a number of different Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) that were growing rapidly across the auto industry and other industrial sectors. The formation of the League was an attempt to create a more cohesive political organ guided by the... More →

The Asian Youth Movement

Type: Event
Date:
With: Anandi Ramamurthy,
Life Before Thatcher
In the mid 1970s, a new generation of South Asian youth were growing up in Britain. They emerged less prepared to tolerate the racism in British society, which their parents had had to suffer. This period also saw heightened fascist and racist activity, increasing police violence and the institutionalisation of racism through discriminatory... More →

"Make Them Grovel": The 1976 West Indies Cricket Tour

Type: Event
Date:
Life Before Thatcher
The West Indies Cricket Tour to England in 1976 came at a time of mounting attacks and provocations on black communities both by fascist groups such as the National Front and by the institutionally racist police forces. The situation was inflamed by the comments of England Captain and native South African Tony Greig, who before the tour claimed "I... More →

Meet The Director: David Olusoga

Type: Event
Date:
With: David Olusoga,
wps2007_l
Namibia: Genocide And The Second Reich "The ghosts of the Namibian genocide have been reawakened. They return to haunt liberal post-war Germany, and in doing so they force Germany to wake-up to a very uncomfortable fact that the dark racial theories that helped inspire the Nazis run much deeper into German and European history than most people... More →

Meet The Director: Paul Tickell

Type: Event
Date:
With: Paul Tickell,
wps2007_l
Rasicm: A History: Part 1 The first part of Racism: A History was screened in March this year on BBC4. Partly filmed at Bristol Radical History week last year, the first of this excellent three part documentary deals with the rise of transatlantic slavery. Bristol Radical History Group think this is one of the best documentary series we have ever... More →

The Cunard Yanks & GI Babes

Type: Event
Date:
2006bw_l
Cunard Yanks Bristol premiere of a Cunard Yanks already shown in Liverpool and New York to popular aclaim. In the early 1950s young, white, Liverpool seamen who worked the Cunard Line, were sailing to New York. Although they did not know it at the time, they were to collide with the explosion of a new cultural scene in the U.S.A. This was the... More →