Institute of Race Relations
Abolition, internationalism and communities of resistance. 4 July 2023. Fifty years ago, the Institute of Race Relations overturned ‘race relations’ orthodoxies and set parameters for a committed anti-racism. Fifty years on, the IRR, with radical scholar activists, examined ‘New Circuits of Anti-Racism’ at a conference gathering.
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THE Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to carry out research, publish and collect resources on race relations throughout the world. In 1972, the IRR’s membership backed the staff in a radical transformation of the organisation from a policy-oriented, establishment, academic institution into an anti-racist ‘thinktank’. The ...
Research - Institute of Race Relations
Research. The IRR’s reputation is built on its investigations and analyses into pressing issues of contemporary racism. These investigations in the UK have covered such areas as racism and the press, police racism, exclusions from school, deaths in custody, the plight of asylum seekers, anti-Muslim racism, the impact of anti-terrorism ...
Criminal justice system statistics - Institute of Race Relations
Sep 27, 2024 · In 2020, the adult prison population comprised 73% white, 13% black, 8% Asian, 5% of mixed ethnicity and 1% from other ethnic groups. However black people, according to the 2021 census, make up just 4% of the general population, meaning they are over three times as likely to end up in the prison population.
Ethnicity and religion statistics - Institute of Race Relations
Ethnicity. According to the Office for National Statistics, there were approximately 59.6 million people living in England and Wales in mid-2021. Of these, 48.7 million (86.0 per cent) were White British. The most recent Census in 2021 also highlights that in England and Wales, 81.7 per cent of the population were white British.
Racial violence and hate crime - Institute of Race Relations
In 2019/20 there were 105,090 hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales (excluding Greater Manchester) an increase of 8 % on the previous year. The vast majority of hate crimes were race hate crimes accounting for 76,070 (72% of all) offences – an increase of 6% on 2018/19. Religious hate crimes accounted for 6,822 offences, the ...
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Photo by Cinzia D’Ambrosi. Liz Fekete is Director of the Institute of Race Relations, head of its European Research Programme and an Advisory Editor of Race & Class. She is the author of A suitable enemy: racism, migration and Islamophobia in Europe (Pluto press, 2009) and Europe’s Fault Lines: racism and the rise of the Right (Verso, …
IRR50: harnessing the spirit of transformation
Mar 10, 2022 · 2022 marks the 50 th anniversary of the radical transformation of the IRR. This year, we will be celebrating our history, past, present and future with a series of events, projects and activities as part of IRR50.. The Extraordinary General Meeting of staff and members on 18 April 1972 changed the direction and relevance of the IRR, from a policy-oriented, establishment, academic institution ...
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The Institute of Race Relations is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that inform the struggle for racial justice in Britain, Europe and internationally.