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<\/p>\nIn 2021 the University commissioned a report to investigate early founders and their links with colonialism and slavery. The report focused on the Baxter family who supported the establishment of what was then University College Dundee and made some recommendations for future actions and research. To mark Race Equality week this year we have launched a summary of the report and, in an event on 7th February, outlined our plans for the coming year.<\/p>\n
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The new summary of the report can be accessed here <\/a>and the key findings\u00a0 are as follows:<\/p>\n This research is part of a wider narrative which calls for a better understanding of Britain\u2019s imperial legacy. The UK is a multicultural society that includes descendants of the enslaved and communities from many former British colonies. The alienation and underlying discontent felt by these communities has many causes, including a non-inclusive educational curriculum, the repeated acceptance of narratives crafted by enslavers and colonisers rather than by those whom they sought to control, and a general lack of understanding of how interwoven Britain\u2019s imperial legacy is with modern day systemic inequalities. The full report can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The University has plans to build on this research this year with a symposium on memorialisation in the Spring, a conference on Robert Wedderburn and an exhibition for Black History Month. We are also planning research into other funders of the University and component parts as well as early students.<\/p>\n Members of the University are also working closely with the City’s Woven Together<\/a> project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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