Julian Bond: a celebration
May 11, 2016
Join us at the British Academy to celebrate the life and activism of Julian Bond (1940-2015) on Tuesday 24 May at 6pm for a free event Post by Professor Sharon Monteith. Julian Bond was booked as keynote speaker in London but sadly passed away in August 2015. In the obituary I wrote then, I promised …
Civil rights on film: Eyes on the Prize
May 10, 2016
Cinema is central to our understanding of civil rights movement history. Join filmmakers and historians at the British Academy on 24, 25 and 26 May to discuss the relationship between history, activism and documentary filmmaking. The Civil Rights Movement exists in “grainy black-and-white” (Obama, 1995) When Barack Obama published Dreams From My Father in 1995, …
Race and Rights: The Cause of All Nations
October 23, 2015
An event to mark the end of the 150th anniversary period for the American Civil War. Thursday 29 October 2015 (18.00 – 19.00) A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park Free and open to all, but please register here. Marking the end of the 150th anniversary period for the Civil War (2011-2015), please join the …
Race and Rights: Screening of Fruitvale Station
October 22, 2015
By Hannah-Rose Murray In celebration of Black History Month 2015, I held a screening and post-film discussion of Fruitvale Station on Wednesday 14 October. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, the film depicts the last few days of Oscar Grant III’s life, an African American killed by police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California in …
Race and Rights: American Atrocities and British Smugness
October 21, 2015
By Peter Ling The Oregon shootings, in the wake of the Virginia shootings, in the wake of the Charleston shootings, in the wake of the Ferguson killing, and the Sandy Hook school massacre drew global media to the issue of American gun control, yet again. A clearly frustrated President Obama was shown lamenting the fact …
Race and Rights: Charleston
June 23, 2015
In response to the murder of nine African Americans by a young white man at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, Professor Peter Ling of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights examines the surrounding history, political context and narrative. In classic English crime fiction, such as Agatha Christie, the recurrent plot …
Race and Rights: Black Soldiers Part 4
June 2, 2015
To mark the 150th anniversary of the ending of the American Civil War in 1865, James Brookes of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights analyses the visual culture of African American flags—regimental colours that expressed the black experience of war and of life in America itself. In the fourth and final blog of …
Race and Rights: Black Soldiers Part 3
May 22, 2015
To mark the 150th anniversary of the ending of the American Civil War in 1865, James Brookes of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights analyses the visual culture of African American flags—regimental colours that expressed the black experience of war and of life in America itself. In the third of this four-part series, …
Race and Rights: Black Soldiers Part 2
May 18, 2015
To mark the 150th anniversary of the ending of the American Civil War in 1865, James Brookes of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights analyses the visual culture of African American flags—regimental colours that expressed the black experience of war and of life in America itself. In the second of this four-part series, …
Race and Rights: Black Soldiers Part 1
May 11, 2015
To mark the 150th anniversary of the ending of the American Civil War in 1865, James Brookes of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights analyses the visual culture of African American flags—regimental colours that expressed the black experience of war and of life in America itself. In the first of this four-part series, …
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