PUBLICATION

Black history: the present in the past

By Institute of Race Relations

Topics:

IRA ALDRIDGE: original research on the experience of the American actor on the English stage during the 19th century and his struggle for recognition despite racial hostility.
C.L.R. JAMES: his ideas of self-emancipation, gleaned from maroon history and applied in anti-colonial organising of the 1930s.
CHEIKH ANTA DIOP: the battle of ideas to establish the Africanity of ancient Egyptian civilisation.
KALAMU YA SALAAM: how this New Orleans blues musician and filmmaker harnessed to his art traditions stretching from slavery to Black power.
WEST AFRICA: Peter Fryer uncovers a 2,500-year-old account of its music.
BLACK CANADIAN EDUCATION: a community campaign against the presentation of black people in To Kill a Mocking Bird.

The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those of the authors.