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...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20209 min read
‘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...
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Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202016 min read
‘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...
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Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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...
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Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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...
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Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 20208 min read
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...
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Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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,...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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...
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Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 20205 min read
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...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20204 min read
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...
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Tayyiba Nasir
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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...
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Tayyiba Nasir
Jun 15, 202011 min read
Gendered Experiences of Anti-Colonial Resistance
Module: HST5385 From Prophecy to Revolution: Resistance and Insurgency against European Empire By: Isabelle Grime Statue in Guadeloupe...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20207 min read
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...
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Zhara Adal
Jun 15, 202011 min read
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...
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Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20207 min read
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”...
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Eleanor Day
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 20209 min read
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...
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Carla Norman
Jun 15, 202012 min read
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...
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