On the Brixton Uprising: 40 Years On

This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the publication of the Scarman Inquiry, which examined the Brixton Uprisings of 1981 and acknowledged, for the first time, the discriminatory policing of Black people.

Over the spring of 2021, Ph.D. Student Virgillo Amando Hunter was Black Cultural Archives’ Researcher in Residence, who worked on updating our ‘Uprisings’ subject guide: https://blackculturalarchives.org/subject-guides

Virgillo Hunter is a History Doctoral Candidate of Modern British History at the University of East Anglia (UEA), with interests in British-Caribbean families, oral history, and Caribbean migratory cultures in the Twentieth-century. He is currently writing his dissertation on post-war British-Caribbean families in England between 1948 and 1998 and is one of UEA’s Decolonising Humanities interns for 2021. He also volunteers at the George Padmore Institute--Finsbury Park, London.

In this essay, Virgillo discusses the Brixton Uprisings in more detail and reflects on his research. Read Virgillo's essay here.