SEED Anti-Racist Education Network: ‘The Road Made to Walk on Carnival Day: 50 Years Since the Notting Hill Carnival Riots’
The talk will explore the events surrounding the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival, their wider political and social context, and their significance for anti-racist struggles in Britain, 50 years on.
Speaker
Zakariya Cochrane
Biography: Zakariya Cochrane is a Carnival Researcher whose work explores the political and cultural significance of Notting Hill Carnival. His research examines how the Carnival provided the Caribbean community with a means of collectively resisting the racism they faced in Britain during the 1970s, as well as its wider influence on the development of anti-racist politics. In particular, Zakariya explores the relationship between Notting Hill Carnival and the Rock Against Racism movement of the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Since 2017, he has organised floats in the Notting Hill Carnival parade on behalf of Love Music Hate Racism. Zakariya recently contributed a new introduction to the republication of The Road Make To Walk on Carnival Day: The Battle for the West Indian Carnival in Britain, a collection of articles originally published in Race Today around 1976. The collection documented and argued for the Caribbean community’s right to hold Carnival on the streets of Notting Hill.
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A2.7
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Manchester
