About the project

THE BRITISH BROWN HISTORY PROJECT

There has been a constant migration of South Asians into Britain for a very long period. Whether they came for education or simply to better their lives, they all felt themselves to be British. They just desired to enter Britain, the cradle of the British Empire. After all, they had 200 years of collective input ...

British Asian Youth Movements

Asian youth movements AYMs emerged during the late 1970s. Their fight was to make Britain their home, which resulted in a broad based black identity, that ultimately became recognised as a political identity. Ananandi Ramamurthy's research, as well as her book Black Star: Britains' Asian Youth feeds into the ...

Research areas of focus

  • Political Blackness
  • Community activism
  • Community cohesion
  • Advocacy for legal and Immigration
  • Use of culture to fight racism
  • Documenting racism
  • Labour and trade unions
  • Immigration rights
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Colonialism and Imperialism
  • Politics
  • Institutionalised racism
  • Integration - Assimilation - Multiculturalism
  • Education
  • Policing and Race Relation Acts
  • India partition 1947
  • Racist murders