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Institute of Race Relations (IRR)

Research resources for Caribbean Studies and the History of Black and Asian people in the UK

CASBAH SURVEY REPORT

 

Introduction

The IRR Survey

Survey Data

Appendix

Section One - Introduction

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to promote the study of race relations and make suggestions for their improvement. As the racial climate worsened the IRR carved out a role that was both separate from the strictly academic research being carried out in universities and independent of the ad hoc initiatives instituted by government. Since 1972, the IRR has concentrated on responding to the needs of black people and making more direct analyses of institutionalised racism in Britain and more recently, the rest of Europe.

For further information about the Institute of Race Relations, visit their website at: http://www.irr.org.uk/

Section Two - The IRR survey


The CASBAH pilot survey was conducted at the IRR from 26th November - 2nd December 2000. The aim was:

  1. Identify key organisations, periodicals, pamphlets, and publications relevant to Caribbean Studies and Black and Asian histories in Britain. An emphasis was placed on UK material covering the period between 1948 and the mid 1970s the coverage of which is a particular collection strength of the IRR. The data gathered was to be used in helping to identify relevant records in subsequent surveys.
  2. Examine periodicals covering nationalism and insurgency in the Caribbean, and emergence of Caribbean nation-states.
  3. Explore the more recent material that covers, and reflects, the expansion of the IRRs remit to cover Europe.
  4. Provide a case study of how sub-collection descriptions in specialist libraries such as the IRR can be created.

Thematic Spread

(This section will be available in April 2002)

Section Three - Printed Sources Collections

Hazel Waters, IRR librarian, submitted the following Printed sources collection level descriptions:

  1. United States Book Collection
  2. UK pamphlets and ephemera
  3. UK Book Collection
  4. Anti-fascist and Black British ephemera
  5. Periodicals Collection

Click Here to view the CASBAH data entry for the IRR Printed Collections (Available March 2002)

Appendix

Black journals and newspapers (vol. 1 - vol.)

The following is a list of journals, newsletters, and newspapers that were published between the mid -1950s and 1980s. The collection covers the activities of many organisations led and driven by the concerns of Black and Asian peoples. Housed at the IRR, the material has been placed in four large folders (vol 1 - 4).


Volume 1

Action line · Affor · Africa · African · Afro-West Indian Clarion (1950s) · Anti-Racist Education · Asian Action Group · Asian Observer · Asian Post · Asian Voice · Asian Youth Groups · Birmingham Black Sisters · Black Chat · Black Consciousness · Black Dimension · Black Dwarf · Black Eagle · Black Eye

Volume 2

Black Health · Black Information Unit · Black Liberator · Black Life · Black Line · Black Panther · Black Parents · Black Peoples Action Group · Black Peoples Freedom Movement · Black Phoenix · Black Ram · Black revolutionary · Black Seeds · Black Power Speaks · Black Star · Black Socialist Alliance


Volume 3

Black Struggle · Black Unity and Freedom · Black Voice · Black Workers Action Committee · Black Worker - his world · Black Writer · Bradford Black British Caribbean Association · Brixton Defence Campaign · Burning Debates · Come - Unity News · Drum · Flambeau · Flame · Frontline

Volume 4

Roots - 1980 · Professional Views - the monthly magazine for immigrant communities · Pioneer News - newspaper with focus on Britain's blacks and the host community' · Hustler (1968) · Liberation Mukti - (newspaper) for Asian Militants - 1977c · Mazdoor - born of the Imperial Typewriter Strike · Mukti - Asian women's journal (1983 - · Northern Black - voice of the Black Community in the North - 1980 · Grass Roots - Black Community News London, WC1B 5DS · West Indian Defence Committee - Brixton Branch - 1977c · The Urban informer · The Uprising · UHURU - Black Peoples Freedom Movement - Nottingham 1972 · The Snipper - Black London News Views and Streetlife - 1982c · Southall Black Sisters Newsletter · Speak Out - Black women's group - Brixton · SPARK - the bulletin of the National Coordinating Committee of Overseas Students in the UK · Torch - Strategy for a Black Agenda - 1986 - bi-monthly · Samaj n'a Babylon - Grunwick, Apartheid, and policing were burning issues · Snipper · Tell it · Uprising · The Urban Informer

Created February 2001 by Dr.Roiyah Saltus - Blackwood

Updated: January 2002