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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20210920
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/museum-of-liverpool-blackfest-20
 21-1981-toxteth-uprisings-exhibition/
SUMMARY:Museum Of Liverpool: Museum of Liverpool: BlackFest 2021: 1981 Toxt
 eth Uprisings Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nBlackFest Festival 2021 Presents An Exhibition Commemorat
 ing The 1981 Toxteth Uprisings In The Year of The 40th Anniversary\nIn the
  year of the 40th Anniversary of the Toxteth Uprisings\, BlackFest Festiva
 l 2021 will be hosting a unique project collecting pictures and quotes fro
 m members of the community. This photography project will be displayed as 
 an exhibition in the Museum of Liverpool and will help recognise members o
 f our community's (and/or that of their friend's and family's) personal ex
 periences and quotes.\n\nToxteth riots In 1981 riots erupted in Toxteth pu
 tting Liverpool on the front page.\n\nOn Friday\, July 3rd 1981 the arrest
  of 20-year-old Leroy Cooper on Selbourne Street\, watched by an angry cro
 wd\, led to a fracas. Over the weekend that followed full-blown riots brok
 e out on the streets of Toxteth with pitched battles between police and yo
 uths. The riots lasted for nine days. During this period 70 buildings were
  demolished or burned with widespread civil unrest.\n\nAccording to the 19
 81 census\, in the Granby electoral ward\, which included Toxteth\, 39.6% 
 of men were jobless. A 1989 report on race relations in Liverpool by Lord 
 Gifford\, a radical QC\, and Wally Brown\, a well-informed Toxteth black a
 ctivist\, concluded that for much of the 1980s\, “the real black youth u
 nemployment figure in the Liverpool 8 area [was] 70–80%.” The figure f
 or young black men – the least favourite recruits of employers in the ci
 ty – was almost certainly even worse.\n\nHistorically\, Black and other 
 racially minoritised communities were spatially confined to this area thro
 ugh endemic structural racism. This accentuated existing class\, religious
  and racial inequalities\, leading to the stigmatisation and marginalisati
 on of neighbourhood and community. Neighbourhood challenges to racism help
  both shape and reinforce allegiance and belonging to the neighbourhood of
  Liverpool 8. Out of structural discrimination and spatial confinement\, a
  unique identity with place has been forged. This has strengthened percept
 ions of social solidarity amongst residents and led to a neighbourhood bel
 onging ‘through difference’\, not despite the multiple disadvantages r
 esidents faced\, but\, in many ways\, because of them.\n\nDespite regenera
 tion projects and massive cash injections in Liverpool\, has anything chan
 ged since 1981?\n\n\n\n
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