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Kennetta Hammond Perry serves as director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University where she is also a Reader in History.

Perry received B.A. degrees in History and Political Science at North Carolina Central University and obtained a doctorate in Comparative Black History at Michigan State University.

Her research interests include Black British history, transnational race politics, Black women’s history, archives of Black Europe, and anti-racist movements for citizenship, recognition and social justice throughout the African Diaspora.

She has published widely, including a book-length study on Afro-Caribbean migration to Britain following World War II titled London Is The Place For Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford Press, 2016).

Currently, she is researching histories of state-sanctioned racial violence and the relationship between the decline of the welfare state and the expansion of the carceral state in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.

This event is sponsored by the Mellon Mays Undergradate Fellowship Program at Washington University.