IRR Printed Sources Collection

Title: IRR Printed Sources Collection

Description: The Institute of Race Relations library and resource centre provides information about racism, anti-racism and Black history throughout the world. The collection is divided into 5 main sections:

• UK Book Collection - containing c.1400 titles on issues such as immigration, minority communities, race relations, racism and discrimination, education, housing and policing in the United Kingdom.
• Anti-fascist and Black British ephemera - containing documents from the late 1960s to the early 1970s published by grassroots and community organisations.
• UK pamphlets and ephemera - containing over 120 boxes of pamphlet material on all aspects of race relations in UK, including evidence to government inquiries, community political material, research reports on education, housing, racial violence, policing, 1958, 1981 and 1985 riots.
• Periodicals Collection - containing runs of c.250 journals, including some Black Power and anti-colonial materials and back issues of the West Indian Gazette, Magnet, West Indies Observer, etc.
• United States Book Collection - containing c.1800 titles covering all aspects of race in the USA.

Key themes and topics running throughout the collection include the following:

• Racism in the Police and the Criminal Justice System (e.g. Lawrence Inquiry, institutional racism, Black deaths in police custody, 'Stop and Search')
• Racial Violence (e.g. racially motivated violence and harassment, racially motivated murders)
• Racism and Education (e.g. school exclusions, anti-racist education initiatives)
• Racism and Fascism around Europe (e.g. deaths related to racism around Europe, archive of the European Race Bulletin, anti-racist groups in Europe)
• Racism and Employment (unemployment, inequality at work, Race Relations Act)
• Third World and Globalisation (the politics of globalisation, information capitalism, campaigns against 'Third World' debt)
• Refugees and Asylum-Seekers (Asylum Bill, media coverage, campaigns in Kent and Campsfield)
• Racism and Sport
• Racism and Black Britain (e.g. sources of information on anti-racist organisations in the UK, statistics on immigration and UK population demography)

Strengths:

Size: c. 3000 books; c. 250 journals; 120 box files of pamphlets

Catalogue: Material up to 1981 is listed in Library Catalogue of the Institute of Race Relations, G.K. Hall, 1981, 1981-1997, sheaf catalogue, 1997-2000 computer listed

Catalogue URL:

Main URL: http://www.irr.org.uk

Access: The library is open to members and affiliated organisations from Monday to Thursday 10am-1pm and 2-5pm. Non-members wishing to use the library should phone the librarian on 020 7837 0041.

Acquisition dates:

Note:

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

Complete: Complete

Subjects

Immigration

Refugees

Asylum seekers

Education

Employment

Sociology

Politics

Racism (doctrine)

Anti-racism

Ethnic groups

Interethnic relations

Personal/Corporate names

Institute of Race Relations

Lawrence, Stephen, 1974-1993

Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

Places

Europe

Caribbean

United States of America

United Kingdom