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Black History Month 2022
#LBUBHM
At Leeds Beckett, we are proud to take part in national celebrations to honour the accomplishments of black people and black communities in every area of endeavour.
Throughout the month we will be reflecting on Black history, but also looking at the work being done by academics, students, staff and alumni at the university.
Black History Month Events
Among the events taking place over the next month are:
- Thursday 6 October – Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality (CRED): African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History - Professor Hakim Adi, University of Chichester
- Wednesday 12 October – CRED: Black Student Teachers’ Experiences of Racism in the White School: Strategies of Resilience and Survival - Dr Veronica Poku, Goldsmiths University
- Thursday 20 October – An Evening with Fred D'Aguiar and Shivanee Ramlochan
- Wednesday 26 October – Annual Race Lecture 2022
- Wednesday 2 November – Unmuted: Diasporic South Asian Women in the Postcolonial World
The Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality (CRED) challenges everyday racism and structural race inequalities in education through research, evidence-based practice and the professional development of pre-service and in-service teachers nationally and internationally. Their 22/23 seminar series runs until June 2023.
In conversation
Blog | Working to address racism in schools through partnership and education
Blog | Analysing the lonely Londoners
Blog | Student explore the work of writers of colour
Blog | Celebrating the life and legacy of Gertrude Paul
Student work | Apartheid exhibition
The exhibition panels shown here were produced by students in 2022 for the Level 6 History option module ‘Apartheid and After: Twentieth-Century South Africa’. Students on the module explore the history of racial oppression in South Africa, and consider debates about its causes. As a prominent but contested part of Britain’s colonial empire, the history of South Africa is closely entwined with Britain’s own history. British colonial leaders and settlers played a crucial role in shaping racial segregation and apartheid. Later in the twentieth-century, the British anti-apartheid movement was an important part of resistance to the apartheid state.
For their first assessment on the module, students make digital exhibition panels on any theme connected to apartheid history. Each panel includes primary sources, images and text to engage the viewer and bring to life a facet of apartheid history.
Student work | Slavery podcast series
The podcasts you can access here were produced by second year students for the History module Slavery and Unfree Labour. The module expands and deepens students' engagement with wider world history through a focus on human bondage across the British Empire, an institution whose legacies continue to shape our contemporary perceptions of race, regional development and coercive work practices.
Race Equality Charter
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are key to our culture of care and at the core of how we work with all members of our community.Â
We seek to develop further as a learning organisation and as the best possible place to work and study, to be a ‘Community of Great People’ and to ‘provide an excellent education and experience’ for all our colleagues and students.
