Fane Productions | Preeti Dhillon | The Shoulders We Stand On (FULL EVENT) @faneproductions | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Have you heard of the Indian Workers’ Association? The Grunwick Strike? The Brixton Black Women’s Group? The Battle of Brick Lane? If the answer is no, you’re not alone.
Join researcher, historian, and author Preeti Dhillon as she uncovers the forgotten history of the UK’s anti-racist campaigners to celebrate the publication of her new book The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom. The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people, The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better understanding of the past and gives many more people who fought for our future a voice in the present.
For this incredibly enlightening event, Preeti will be joined with the Kavita Puri, author of Partition Voices: Untold British Stories and in conversation they will urge us to reclaim the history that has been kept from us and use these vital movements and inspirational moments to better understand the UK we live in today and how change occurs.
A Night In with Preeti Dhillon was originally broadcast on Thu 14 Sep.
To discover more Fane events, visit fane.co.uk/whats-on
00:00 Introduction
0:59 Finding The Long Story
2:15 Why Aren't These Stories Known?
3:21 Bringing Together the Black & South Asian Experience
5:22 The Colour Bar
7:48 Black & South Asian Experience Pre-Dating the War
9:59 IWA: Indian Worker's Association
13:23 Bussing
15:47 Virginity Testing
19:09 Does the IWA Still Operate?
19:38 The Grunwick Strike
25:02 The Murders of Gurdip Singh Chaggar & Altab Ali
30:25 The Death of Blair Peach
33:43 Ending the Book in 1981
35:28 Fragmentation in the Activist Groups
38:23 Where are we now?
40:03 Being seen as a 'True Brit'
41:34 Closing Comments
#PreetiDhillon #BritishAsian #BlackBritish #BlackHistoryMonth #History
Have you heard of the Indian Workers’ Association? The Grunwick Strike? The Brixton Black Women’s Group? The Battle of Brick Lane? If the answer is no, you’re not alone.
Join researcher, historian, and author Preeti Dhillon as she uncovers the forgotten history of the UK’s anti-racist campaigners to celebrate the publication of her new book The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom. The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people, The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better understanding of the past and gives many more people who fought for our future a voice in the present.
For this incredibly enlightening event, Preeti will be joined with the Kavita Puri, author of Partition Voices: Untold British Stories and in conversation they will urge us to reclaim the history that has been kept from us and use these vital movements and inspirational moments to better understand the UK we live in today and how change occurs.
A Night In with Preeti Dhillon was originally broadcast on Thu 14 Sep.
To discover more Fane events, visit fane.co.uk/whats-on
00:00 Introduction
0:59 Finding The Long Story
2:15 Why Aren't These Stories Known?
3:21 Bringing Together the Black & South Asian Experience
5:22 The Colour Bar
7:48 Black & South Asian Experience Pre-Dating the War
9:59 IWA: Indian Worker's Association
13:23 Bussing
15:47 Virginity Testing
19:09 Does the IWA Still Operate?
19:38 The Grunwick Strike
25:02 The Murders of Gurdip Singh Chaggar & Altab Ali
30:25 The Death of Blair Peach
33:43 Ending the Book in 1981
35:28 Fragmentation in the Activist Groups
38:23 Where are we now?
40:03 Being seen as a 'True Brit'
41:34 Closing Comments
#PreetiDhillon #BritishAsian #BlackBritish #BlackHistoryMonth #History
