Blog posts tagged ‘racism’

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Photo of suffragettes

They All Must Fall: Does the racism of white suffragettes mean their statues must also come down?

Removing the statuses of racist icons throughout the United Kingdom and the United States has become a movement unto itself.
A clipping from The Voice newspaper, with headline 'Scotland's Stephen Lawrence Remembered'

Fighting Denial: The Lothian Black Forum and Anti-Racist Protests in Edinburgh, 1989-1992

Henry Dee explores a previous upsurge in anti-racist organising in Edinburgh through the Lothian Black Forum, prompted by the murder of Axmed Abuukar Sheekh in 1989.

Black and white image of a protest, with a sign reading "Black Lives Matter"

C.L.R. James and Henri Lefebvre: an imaginary conversation

Cross posted from Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power – Blog post by Andrew Smith, University of Glasgow, UK
Statue of Henry Dundas in Edinburgh

Making redress for slavery goes far further than statues of individuals

Article by Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History at The University of Edinburgh) – Cross posted from The Scotsman – 21 June 2020
protestors marching in Handsworth

Handsworth and the production of knowledge: blackness, racism and anti-imperialism in 1970s Britain

Cross posted from Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power – Blog post by ​Lisa Amanda Palmer, De Montfort University, UK
Photo of a leaflet that reads: Towards the Empowerment of Montreal's Black Community

Black in the city: on the ruse of ethnicity and language in an antiblack landscape

While tourists know Montreal for its cafés, festivals and old-word European ‘charm’*, locals also know its boundaries that divide the city into an Anglophone West and a Francophone East.
photo of Jean Besson

Caribbean students in 1960s Edinburgh

Cross posted from UncoverED – blog by Hannah McGurk

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