Course Description

Course Name

Black People in Britain, 1750-1950: Racism Riots and Resistance

Session: VSRS3122

Hours & Credits

20 SCQF Credits

Prerequisites & Language Level

Taught In English

  • There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Overview

Topics covered by the module include: slavery in Britain; the writings of eighteenth and nineteenth century black
Britons; racism in the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries; black British political activity; black people in two
world wars; inter-war riots; coming of mass immigration.

*Course content subject to change