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anti-racism statement from icr
The International Centre on Racism stands against racism in all its forms. The death of George Floyd and others in the past in the name of law enforcement has saddened and appalled members of the Centre. We strongly condemn prejudice against black and minority ethnic people in the US, the UK and around the world.…
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Hollywood & Covid: post-2020
A week after Lockdown began in late March 2020, the Institute for Social Responsibility, based at Edge Hill University, made a call for contributions to its blog to comment on our responses to the Covid-19 epidemic and how our academic fields have been affected. Deputy Director of the International Centre on Racism, Jenny Barrett, contributed…
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Social Media and Antisemitism
DECIPHERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREJUDICE AND COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE & PUBLIC WORKSHOP International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK 5-6 November 2019 Social media is arguably impacting in significant ways on anti-Jewish racism- but what is novel about this relationship? Focused on this question, Social Media & Antisemitism is the first conference to analyse the connection between…
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partnership with the European university institute
Edge Hill University has exchanged letters with the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence to establish a new research partnership for the project, MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism. MONITOR is a multi-media magazine that brings the insights of research on racism to global public debate. The ICR will be the centre of the partnership at…
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new international Expert TEAM
The ICR will launch in the autumn of 2019 with an international team of experts on race. The team were recruited to provide expertise on a diversity of racisms. Members of the Centre include the Surviving Society podcast team, Chantelle Lewis and Tissot Regis, alongside the Co-Editor of Current Sociology, Karim Murji, and the Joint…
