Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R)

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The Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R) a leading centre for the study of race and rights, with a focus on global public engagement that challenges all forms of racism, discrimination and human rights violation. Offering an innovative and vibrant base for collaboration between staff, undergraduates, postgraduates, visiting scholars and external partners, C3R provides policy-relevant research on race and rights, and intervenes in national and international debates on social justice, freedom, ethnicity, tolerance, respect, and citizenship.

Areas of expertise include:

• Contemporary and historic slavery
• Race and rights in the US South
• The Civil Rights Movement, including in transatlantic contexts
• Black studies, including music and art
• Critical whiteness
• LGBT studies
• Women's rights
• Labour rights and histories
• Latino studies
• Asian American studies
• Indigenous rights
• 1960s social movements
• Counter-culture
• Immigration

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University of Nottingham
Nottingham

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