Essay – due 28 March
3,5000 words
How did policing become a problem for ethnic minorities in twentieth-century Britain?
Essay marking criteria -
https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/2666759/mod_page/content/9/Essay%20marking
%20criteria.pdf
Reading
Further reading: policing and institutional racism
Aaron Andrews, ‘Truth, Justice, and Expertise in 1980s Britain: the Cultural Politics of the
New Cross Massacre’, History Workshop Journal (advance access, 2021).
Benyon, John, ed, Scarman and After (Oxford: Pergamon, 1984)
Benyon, John, and John Solomos, eds, The Roots of Urban Unrest (Oxford: Pergamon, 1987)
Cashmore, Ellis, and Eugene McLaughlin, eds, Out of Order?: Policing Black People (London:
Routledge, 1991)
Connell, Kieran, ‘Policing the Crisis 35 Years On’, Contemporary British History 29. 2 (2015):
273–283.
Connell, Kieran, ‘Photographing Handsworth: photography, meaning and identity in a British
inner city’, Patterns of Prejudice, 46. 2 (2012): 128–153.
Cox, Pamela, ‘Race, delinquency and difference in twentieth-century Britain’, in P. Cox and
H. Shore (eds), Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950 (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002), 159–77.
Elliott-Cooper, Adam, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2021).
Emsley, Clive, ‘The English Bobby: An Indulgent Tradition’ in Myths of the English, ed. Roy
Porter (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992), pp.114-135.
Erfani-Ghettani, Ryan, ‘The Defamation of Joy Gardner: Press, Police and Black Deaths in
Custody’, Race & Class, 56. 3 (2014): 102–12.
Gilroy, Paul, ‘Lesser Breeds without the Law’, in There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The
Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (London: Hutchinson, 1987)
Gilroy, Paul, ‘Police and Thieves’, in Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The Empire
Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (London: Hutchinson, 1982).
Hall, Stuart, et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State, and Law and Order (London:
Macmillan, 1978)
Hall, Stuart, ‘From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence’, History Workshop Journal, 48 (1999),
187-197.
Hirsch, Shirin, and David Swanson, ‘Photojournalism and the Moss Side Riots of 1981:
Narrowly Selective Transparency’, History Workshop Journal, 89 (Spring 2020): 221–245.
3,5000 words
How did policing become a problem for ethnic minorities in twentieth-century Britain?
Essay marking criteria -
https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/2666759/mod_page/content/9/Essay%20marking
%20criteria.pdf
Reading
Further reading: policing and institutional racism
Aaron Andrews, ‘Truth, Justice, and Expertise in 1980s Britain: the Cultural Politics of the
New Cross Massacre’, History Workshop Journal (advance access, 2021).
Benyon, John, ed, Scarman and After (Oxford: Pergamon, 1984)
Benyon, John, and John Solomos, eds, The Roots of Urban Unrest (Oxford: Pergamon, 1987)
Cashmore, Ellis, and Eugene McLaughlin, eds, Out of Order?: Policing Black People (London:
Routledge, 1991)
Connell, Kieran, ‘Policing the Crisis 35 Years On’, Contemporary British History 29. 2 (2015):
273–283.
Connell, Kieran, ‘Photographing Handsworth: photography, meaning and identity in a British
inner city’, Patterns of Prejudice, 46. 2 (2012): 128–153.
Cox, Pamela, ‘Race, delinquency and difference in twentieth-century Britain’, in P. Cox and
H. Shore (eds), Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950 (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002), 159–77.
Elliott-Cooper, Adam, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2021).
Emsley, Clive, ‘The English Bobby: An Indulgent Tradition’ in Myths of the English, ed. Roy
Porter (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992), pp.114-135.
Erfani-Ghettani, Ryan, ‘The Defamation of Joy Gardner: Press, Police and Black Deaths in
Custody’, Race & Class, 56. 3 (2014): 102–12.
Gilroy, Paul, ‘Lesser Breeds without the Law’, in There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The
Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (London: Hutchinson, 1987)
Gilroy, Paul, ‘Police and Thieves’, in Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The Empire
Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (London: Hutchinson, 1982).
Hall, Stuart, et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State, and Law and Order (London:
Macmillan, 1978)
Hall, Stuart, ‘From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence’, History Workshop Journal, 48 (1999),
187-197.
Hirsch, Shirin, and David Swanson, ‘Photojournalism and the Moss Side Riots of 1981:
Narrowly Selective Transparency’, History Workshop Journal, 89 (Spring 2020): 221–245.
