AHMED IQBAL ULLAH RACE RELATIONS CENTRE
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is an open access library based in Manchester and connected the University of Manchester system, which specialises in the study of race, ethnicity and migration. It has four major institutional aims:
The Centre is connected to the work of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, which is named after a Bangladeshi school boy who was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack at a Manchester high school in 1986.
- To enable academic and independent research into racial and ethnic history and experience.
- To support teachers in educating young people growing up in multicultural Britain.
- To encourage confidence and pride in Black and ethnic minority people
- To equip all communities with the information and knowledge they need to promote an anti-racist world.
The Centre is connected to the work of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, which is named after a Bangladeshi school boy who was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack at a Manchester high school in 1986.
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah
I began my relationship with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Centre in 2013 during my time as a PhD student at the University of Manchester. After working for the Centre on an ad-hoc basis, I took up a role as the Centre's Researcher-in-Residence. As part of this role, I organised public events and film screenings, helped to edit the Centre's academic journal and catalogue its research material, and produced a working paper on the Centre's relocation to the refurbished Manchester Central Library.
Promotional photograph for AIURRC, 2016.
I have since taken up a role as a Research Fellow, which has allowed me to continue collaborating with the Centre on a range of projects. Most recently, I co-organised a project with Greater Manchester schools to develop a series of children's book focusing on the relationship between African Americans and Manchester. The first book in this series was recently published, which focused on Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The book is currently featuring as part of a Race Relations Road Show taking place in schools across Manchester, and is also available to purchase from the Race Relations Centre. For more information on the project click here and here.
Book Sleeve. 2017.