UCU: Black history, black studies and anticolonial history

Motion

Motion text: Conference denounces attacks on jobs and disciplinary and the particular risk to
specialist areas Black History, Black Studies and anticolonial history and
thought.
Conference believes:
1. These areas of debate bring new generations into energetic intellectual
inquiry.
2. Attacks on taught routes narrow opportunities for students and communities,
particularly when regional provision is threatened;
3. Loss of postgraduate specialisms threatens the career paths of future
scholars and thinkers, and to the representation of Black intellectual
traditions in the academy.
Conference agrees:
a. To create popular educational materials on the importance of Black and
anticolonial intellectual traditions for UK education;
b. To host a student and community facing online event highlighting the role of
Black and anticolonial intellectual traditions;
c. To map regional access to taught programmes including Black and
anticolonial intellectual traditions;
d. To work with community and student groups to document the importance of
these areas to access and progression for Black and other local
communities.