Activist Darcus Howe addresses 'Anti-Anti Mugging March' demonstrators from the roof of a public toilet block at Clifton Rise, Lewisham,  London. 13th August 1977.
© Syd Shelton / Autograph Media

 

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The collections hold a body of works on the Caribbean presence in Britain. Highlights include materials that focus on the arrival and settlement of the 'Windrush Generation', the diasporic culture building of British-Caribbean communities and the racialised experiences of 2nd and 3rd generation Black Britons. These range from independently published activist monographs, to poetry and sociological studies. 

Key catalogue subject themes:

Caribbean Area Emigration And Immigration ; Blacks Great Britain History 20th Century ; West Indians In Great Britain ; Blacks Great Britain Politics And Government ; West Indians Great Britain Social Conditions

 

Arrivals

General

Diasporic Life

General

 

Becoming ‘Black Britons’ and ‘Race Relations’

Scarman Inquiry Archive (1981 Brixton Uprising)

The Scarman report was commissioned by the UK Government following the 1981 Brixton riots. Lord Scarman was appointed on 14 April 1981 (two days after the rioting ended) to hold the enquiry into the riots 'to inquire urgently into the serious disorder in Brixton on 10–12 April 1981 and to report, with the power to make recommendations'.

Miscelanous Materials on 'Race' and 'Race Relations'

For a wealth of contemporary and up to date research on British race relations see http://www.irr.org.uk/

The 'Black Arts Movement' and thereafter