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An examination of the roles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the civil rights era
Module: HST5350 The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900-2000 By Neve Amaro Beginning in the 1950s, the civil rights...
Carla Norman
Jun 16, 20209 min read
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What was the role of television and popular culture in forming and challenging ideas of race?
Module: HST4605 Race and the Desire for Difference By Cristina Mascia On account of the rising population of immigrants throughout the...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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‘These films would not have been made if Obama was not president.’
Module: HST4312 Screening History: Representing the Past in Historical Film By Veena Saunder 12 Years a Slave and The Help are modern...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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‘Understanding the Achievements of the Black Power Movement in the UK’
‘To understand UK Black Power, one must define what identity, community control, anti-colonialism and internationalism meant in the UK...
Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202016 min read
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When and how did slavery become a divisive issue in the United States?
Module: HST4314 'Building the American Nation - The United States, 1776-1896' By Claudia Censina Brooker Slavery had existed since 1619...
Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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What role did European subjunction play in the decolonisation of Africa?
Module: HST5610 Kingdoms, Empires and Colonisation in African History By Kristina Tsabala On the 14th of December 1960, the United...
Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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How have struggles over racism intersected with struggles over labour, property, and wealth?
Module: HST5317 Race in the United States: From Slavery to Civil Rights- Take Home Exam By: Cian Downing Racial struggles have punctuated...
Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 20208 min read
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How do archives perpetuate colonial violence?
Module: HST6356 'An Excess of Colonialism': Empire, Race, and Violence By Emma Davies Colonial violence can take many forms; physical,...
Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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Is the history of music and race in modern Britain best characterised by continuity or change?
Module: HST5383 Music and Social Change in Modern Britain from Ballads to Britpop By: Jake Johnstone This paper will develop an...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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Is the Peace Committee overshadowing the ethnic tensions in Ethiopia through Ahmed's early praise?
Module: HST5359 Freedom and Nation: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956-2006 By: Megan Saunders In recent media, there has been an...
Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 20205 min read
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Book Review: 'If We Must Die' by Eric Robert Taylor
Module: HST6339 The Atlantic Slave Trade in Africa, Europe and the Americas By: Melissa Berry Shipboard slave resistance is growing in...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20204 min read
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Slavery and American Capitalism between 1865 and 1896
Module: HST4314 Building the American Nation By: Krutika Sharma The aftermath of the Civil War saw the 14th amendment being passed in...
Tayyiba Nasir
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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Gendered Experiences of Anti-Colonial Resistance
Module: HST5385 From Prophecy to Revolution: Resistance and Insurgency against European Empire By: Isabelle Grime Statue in Guadeloupe...
Tayyiba Nasir
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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A comparative assessment of three forms of resistance deployed by Black Americans over the centuries
Module: HST5317 Race in the United States: Slavery to Civil Rights By: Mezhegan Dauod The history of America is heavily intertwined with...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20207 min read
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How did law serve to either limit or enable the use of violence in the colonial world?
Module: HST6356 'An Excess of Colonialism': Empire, Race, and Violence By: Hussain Syed Colonial law formed a key component in Britain’s...
Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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What is the historical relationship between race and economic inequality?
Module: HST4605 Race and the Desire for Difference By May El Mantawy Race and capitalism have often been tied together in historical...
Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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Were the 'black peril' panics driven more by race or sex?
Module: HST4605 Race and the Desire for Difference By: Carla Norman ‘Black peril’ panics have been described as a “hysterical obsession”...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20207 min read
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To what extent was fear a driving factor behind the violence perpetrated by the colonisers?
Module: HST6356 'An Excess of Colonialism': Empire, Race and Violence By Katie Qin Guo “Earlier on, such disparaging accounts had been...
Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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Museum Review: National Portrait Gallery and the display of Stormzy's HITH album artwork
Module: HST6367 Heritage After Empire: Decolonising Public History By: Saramarie Harvey In late 2019, my attention was drawn to the...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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What role does Equiano's African identity play in the exploration of self in Interesting Narrative?
Module: HST5407 The Making of the Modern Self By: Saramarie Harvey Over centuries of human history, Europeans have taken advantage of...
Carla Norman
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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