Race, Liverpool and the UK

Explore some of the resources surrounding historical and present-day injustice and race within the UK and Liverpool below.

Websites

• Benin and Liverpool exhibition to confront colonial history
• The Museum of British Colonialism - a joint UK/Kenyan initiative founded to creatively communicate a more truthful account of British colonialism
• The Black Cultural Archives - the only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain. They are currently asking for digital contributions to create their Black Lives Matter archive
• Slave Voyages - explore the dispersal of enslaved Africans across the Atantic world
• The Free Black University - a hub for radical and transformative knowledge production
• Racism in universities is a systemic problem, not a series of incidents

Videos

• Confronting racism in higher education
• TED talk from the founders of the BLM movement
• Is Britain racist? Three Brits speak out (BBC Three)
• Britain’s history of racial inequality: After George Floyd's death in the US how will the UK respond
• Does the UK suffer from similar systemic racism to the US? (Question Time, BBC)
• Everyday racism: what should we do? - Akala
• Racist History: Higher Education
• An everyday dimension of racism: Why we need to understand microaggressions
• Great War To Race Riots Short Film
• Black Lives Matter Liverpool Protest, UK
• Racial Tension (Liverpool, 1972)
• Toxteth, Liverpool, UK - Black Community & Racism – 1989
• Mo Salah's impact on racism in Liverpool
• Liverpool Riots: 'They wrecked what little they have here'
• The Toxteth Riot in Liverpool 1981
• Black Lives Matter Rally: Liverpool (2 June 2020)
• Liverpool Black Lives Matter Protestors
• Liverpool communities in Toxteth stand together with Black Lives Matter
• Black Lives Matter Protests in Liverpool
• "We are Tired" - Henderson & Oxlade-Chamberlain support #BlackLivesMatter
• Liverpool in 1990s
• BBC production: "Anthony"

Books and journal articles

• There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation - Paul Gilroy
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
• How to be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain - Peter Fryer
• Black Study, Black Struggle - Robin D.G.Kelly
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
• Young, Female and Black - Heidi Safia Mirza
• Black and British: A Forgotten History - David Olushoga
• Building the anti-racist university: next steps. Race, Ethnicity and Education 20, no. 3 (2017): 289-299. By Tate, Shirley Anne, and Paul Bagguley.
• Dismantling race in higher education: racism, whiteness and decolonising the academy - edited by Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza (2018)
• Diverse Places of Learning? Home neighbourhood ethnic diversity and ethnic composition of universities - Donnelly, Michael (IPR, 2018)
• Reframing race and widening access into higher education

Documentary titles

• 13th
• The Rachel Divide
• The Central Park Five
• The Blank Panthers - Vanguard Of The Revolution