Lecture 7: Immigration, Ethnicity, Riots

*Gilroy, Paul " There ain't no black in the Union Jack" : the cultural politics of race and nation (1987) Short / HC 7150 UK (Gil) Chapter 4

*Lord Scarman The Scarman Report Summary and appendix Core Collection / HC 7150 UK (BRI) study direct

Roberta Henderson on the Brixton riots (09:35- 13.50) and media representation (15.54-23:18)

Helen Reeves on the turbulence of the Brixton riots (44:01-50:00)

You might want to  find out more about the film Rude Boy

The Sussex Collection is University's own archive. It contains holdings on various Student Union political groups and societies. These include documents from the University of Sussex's own branch of the Anti-Nazi League.  Ethan Smith's article 'Are the Kids United?' in The Journal for the Study or Radicalism, 5, 2, Fall, 2010 puts Rock Against Racism in its wider political context.  

Burns 'Riots and Rebellions' from Poll Tax Rebellions (1992) offers a contrasting model through which to frame urban unrest. (from reading for Seminar 3)

Linton Kwesi Johnson offered powerful commentary on black experience in Britain.


'Britrap' artists like Smiley Culture developed their own particular style of musical critique combined with DIY cultural communities structured around Sound Systems. Lez Henry argues for the important of the spaces and narratives they constructed in his article 'Reggae, Rasta and the Role of the Deejay in the Black British Experience' in Contemporary British History 26/03,2012