Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent | Priyamvada Gopal
In these videos, Priyamvada Gopal uncovers a complicated history of colonial resistance and attitudes to empire in Britain. She is the author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
Abolition and Black Struggle
The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.
Angela Davis: The Political Prisoner
The political prisoner has played a central role in the history of modern liberation struggles, argues Angela Davis.
A Reignited Spirit: Black Women’s Lives in Britain
Lola Okolosie's Foreword to The Heart of the Race: a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism.
The Souls of White Folk
An essay by W.E.B. Du Bois on the imperial roots of American racism.
The Power of Protest
Riots, rebellions and uprisings that have changed the world.
What Is This Black in the Black Radical Tradition?
The suggestion that the Ferguson protestors use voting rather than violence to advance their aims has an especially cynical intent and effect.
Truth and Lies and Monuments
Robert Bevan investigates the political and historical debates behind taking down statues.
Illiberal Racisms, Extremism and the Discursive Reconstruction of the Far Right
Historians and sociologists of race and racism have charted the origins and development of racism through the theorisation of race and racial differences in Europe since the sixteenth century.
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
by Priyamvada Gopal
How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire.
