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An incredible organisation that has been putting in the work in this area for YEARS. Please support them, donate, and please read their National Curriculum Report 2020! They have a letter template you can send to Gavin Williams, Secretary of State for Education.
“A campaign led by students from former British colonies seeking to mandate the teaching of colonial history.”
The Black Curriculum & Impact of Omission collaboration survey:
This is a quick survey made with the aim of gaining a clearer understanding of your experiences of living in the UK and being educated within the U.K.
Decolonising the Arts curriculum
“Studying cultural production through the ‘lens’ of White World is not objective and impartial and is thus flawed academically. This is stating the obvious to a Black film producer or an Asian screen writer or to a serious academic and yet in most cases it is the norm, and when a phenomena is normative, specific strategies are required to see it, to study it, to change it. It is everywhere – so it is not noticed - it is effectively invisible.”
Read about the Aboriginal struggle for Land Rights
“Land rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples refers to the ongoing struggle to gain legal and moral recognition of ownership of lands and waters they called home prior to colonisation of Australia in 1788. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ laws and customs and ways of knowing and being in the world are intimately connected to the land and waters. Connection to land is therefore essential to the continued cultural survival of Indigenous Australians as well as their economic and social development.”
Book recommendations: ‘Black and British: A Forgotten History’ by David Olusoga + ‘Staying Power’ by Peter Fryer
These books provide a detailed history of Black and BAME people in Britain - we wholeheartedly recommend both. PLEASE CONSIDER BUYING FROM A BLACK OWNED BOOKSHOP!
Rapper, poet and journalist Akala talks about structural and inherent racism and xenophobia in Britain.
He also has a book out - Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
