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About the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre

The RACE Centre is a specialist library and archive focusing on the history of global majority communities in Greater Manchester (and beyond), as well as anti-racist activism, refugeeism and migration, and the development of thinking about race and ethnicity.

We work closely with our sister organisation, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust whose ground-breaking community-led collecting and oral history work make us a centre of excellence.  

Photo: Artwork created in collaboration with local schools

Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust

The Trust works out of the RACE Centre, supporting community-led collecting and heritage projects, and engagement work with local communities.

Photo: Safina Islam

Our people

Find out more about our staff at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre.

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Our vision is an inclusive, equally represented and racially just society where everyone belongs.

Photo: Photo showcasing traditional Yemeni fashion was taken at a Yemeni Roots, Salford Lives Project event.

Working with communities

Find out about how we work with global majority communities to explore and share their histories.

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Our history

The Centre was established by Lou Kushnick, Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, in 1999.

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