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‘The argument is not so much about facts as about interpretation’ – Colin Prescod (Archives, race, class and rage)

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A selection of articles exploring the way we ‘do’ history - history is not etched in stone, but curated. How can we challenge this?
What is reparatory history? What does it mean to do it in Britain?

Catherine Hall argues that debates on reparation need to include questions about the historical narratives on ‘race’ and empire that have been and are being produced:

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‘Until the lions have their historians, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunters’

IRR Chair Colin Prescod’s keynote discusses the importance of not just including Black experiences but to allow Black agency in making the historical record.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… No Colour Bar March in UK
‘Rhodes must Fall’ is part of a long campaign – John Newsinger discusses why Rhodes must fall in 2016 by revisiting Rhodes’ legacy in Africa and how he was reviled by British politicians, thinkers, and writers at the time– even in Oxford

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📸Anders Sandberg
Source material can tell more than one story - Anita Rupprect explores how insurance policies for slave ships were changed in response to slave rebellions, showing how they can be used to explore the history of resistance to slavery.

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The Empire didn’t happen ‘over there’. Priyamvada Gopal looks at how colonial rebellion and resistance shaped domestic criticism of the Empire and reshaped ideas about freedom and who could be free. Colonial subjects were never just passive bystanders.

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The legacy of slavery resistance continues to influence anti-colonial struggle. Hazel Waters shows how the cultural impact of C19th resistances persist and relate it to the present & a key period of attempted cultural/political transformation, the 1970s.

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The past is the past – isn’t it?

Cathy Bergin and Anita Rupprecht trace the marginalised narratives of black resistance and white entitlement to show how contested history is, using the incendiary year of 1831 and on a moment of collision.

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Essential reading on policing and deaths in custody in the UK- free to access

‘The silence of the custodial system is compounded by the silences of racism. We have chosen to break that silence’
-A. Sivanandan, intro of IRR report Deadly Silence

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‘There is no justice, there is just us’ - Stafford Scott in the IRR report Dying for Justice. 1/2

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A discussion with families of Cynthia Jarrett, Joy Gardner, Roger Sylvester and Mark Duggan, who live in a 3 mile radius in Tottenham/Haringey and each lost loved ones at the hands of the police. 2/2

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How does the carceral state operate in the US?

As the world wakes up to racism and police brutality, these articles reveal the implications of the carceral state for black communities in the US.

Feat. Angela Davis, Micol Seigel & Colleen E Mills
📺Framing Ferguson

In 2014 a police officer shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown, sparking protests around the world. Protests in Ferguson were met by intense law enforcement.

This piece analyses Fox News coverage, arguing it perpetuated racist discourses
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Violence work: policing and power by Micol Seigel

‘We see that police work is the work of the state, and the work of the state is violence, racialised in the interests of capital.’
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‘We starved, but we shared.’

📖 Free Bank Holiday Reading!

As these principles become more crucial during the pandemic, we publish an Editors selection of R&C articles on the black tradition of mutual aid, self-help and solidarity.

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In post-war Britain, racialised and working-class communities organised to meet vital needs that were either neglected by a racist state, or engendered by it, whilst also pushing for a more radical ‘normal’.

This history has been overlooked, with numerous unsung heroes...
The collection begins with a tribute to ‘Brother’ Herman Edwards who set up Harambee in 1969, providing holistic care for young people inc. prison visiting, educational programmes and bail accommodation encouraging them to gain practical tools to help themselves and each other.
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