Anti-racism in Britain

Saffron East is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities at King's College LondonGrace Redhead is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of ExeterTheo Williams is a Lecturer in Social History at the University of Glasgow

'This brilliant collection captures the voice of a new generation of scholars committed to decolonising modern British history. It offers a powerful corrective to one-dimension understandings of racism and its resistance, past and present. We see the rich diversity of efforts to resist white supremacy in Britain since the 1880s; the ideological limits and the liberal paternalism of some forms of anti-racist politics; and the points of fracture, the lost solidarities, that remain with us to this day.'- Camilla Schofield, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King's College London'This is a remarkably rich collection, which centres the activities of Britain’s racialized citizens and colonial subjects in building enduring and powerful anti-racist movements. The breadth of historical study and the seriousness with which the authors work to bring these anti-racist movements to life are second to none. Anti-racism in Britain will surely become a landmark collection for the field.'- Rob Waters, Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, Queen Mary University of London'This is an important and timely collection. It profoundly deepens our understanding of histories of anti-racist action and thought in Britain.'- Dr Saima Nasar, Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa and its Diasporas, University of Bristol

• Introduction: Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories – Saffron East, Grace Redhead and Theo WilliamsPart I: Domestic, imperial and global anti-racist alliances and encounters1 Countering racial discrimination in Britain, 1880s-1913 – David Killingray2 From racist humanitarianism to colonial human rights: The British Congo Reform Movement and the complicated history of (anti-)racism – Felix Lösing3 George Orwell, Pan-Africanism, and reconciling anti-imperialism with ‘Britishness’ – Theo Williams4 British anti-racism in Australia: Exploring the nexus through the anti-racist activism of Jessie Street, 1950–60 – Alison HollandPart II: Anti-racism and the making of post-imperial Britain5 Celebrating African culture in the North East of England, 1930s–40s – Vanessa Mongey6 British Jews and the Race Relations Acts – Joseph Finlay7 South Asian political Blackness in Britain: Lessons and limitations of anti-racist solidarity – Saffron East8 ‘Unfinished activisms’: From Black self-help to mutual aid organising today – Sophia SiddiquiPart III: Anti-racism, memory and identity9 Memory, multiculturalism and anti-racism in East London, 1990-2006 – Finn Gleeson10 Tartan inclusivity or workers’ internationalism? The St Andrew’s Day Anti-Racism March and Rally in Scotland – Talat Ahmed11 ‘Martin Luther King fought for a colour-blind society’: African American civil rights in UK political discourse – Megan HuntAfterword – Priyamvada GopalIndex