This group is the product of a long-standing collaboration between academics and postgraduate students in the School of History and other schools and departments in the Faculty of Arts, including the School of English, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.  Specifically, it brings together academics and postgraduate students working on race, gender and protest in the 19th and 20th Century United States, parts of South America and the UK, and a group of historians who have examined the changing significance of race and anti-colonial protest in parts of Africa and India.  The group has been, at one level, based around the successful MA programme in Race and Resistance, but it has also been forged out of common interests in the changing significance of race as a dynamic of political and social identity, and forms of political protest in inter-connected regions of the world.

We aim to develop these interests through multi-disciplinary approaches to the histories and cultures of communities and societies around the world that have traditionally suffered discrimination or marginalization, and the strategies such groups have used to challenge established authorities and regimes.

Our research feeds into the teaching of a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, principally those associated with the Race and Resistance programme, but also other undergraduate modules including: HIST3220 Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement; HIST3240 The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-1940HISTHIST3230 'Gandhi and Gandhism in India', HIST2420 'Nationalism, Colonialism and Religious Violence in India, 1857-1947; HIST3260 'Tradition and Modernity in Colonial Africa: Uganda's Kingdoms 1862-1964', HIST5960M, 'The British Settler Colonies in Africa'.