Resources on anti-racist history

Free teaching resource based on the IRR Black History Collection
Aimed at teachers and students of Citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4, this free resource consists of five modules: Community and Identity, Community Safety, Media and Racism, Racial Discrimination and Youth and Protest.

Struggles for Black Community DVD
Four seminal films on Black communities in Cardiff, Leicester, Ladbroke Grove and Southall, which were made by Colin Prescod for Channel 4 in the early 1980s, have been reissued on DVD.

Black history: the present in the past
This special number of the journal Race & Class covers literature, theatre, music, black thinkers and recent debates in the academy and the community crucial to the shaping of black history.

History of the IRR slide show
A slide show telling the story of the first fifty years of the Institute of Race Relations.

HomeBeats: Struggles for Racial Justice
A multimedia journey through time from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to the making of modern Britain.

Roots and patterns: educational resources
A series of four educational booklets covering the historical roots of racism and the fight against it.

A different hunger: writings on black resistance
A seminal collection of essays on racism and black resistance from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Communities of resistance: writings on black struggles for socialism
Powerful interventions on issues which confronted radical politics in the 1980s.

From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
The hitherto unrecorded history of black people in Britain since the Second World War.

Newham: the forging of a black community
The growth of Newham's working-class black community.

Southall: the birth of a black community
How a whole community took to the streets to protest at the invasion of its town by the fascists.