{"tema_id":"501","string":"Institute of Race Relations (IRR)","created":"2017-06-24 11:21:15","code":null,"notes":[{"@type":"Scope note","@lang":"en-US","@value":"The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to carry out research, publish and collect resources on race relations throughout the world. In 1972, the IRR\u2019s membership backed the staff in a radical transformation of the organisation from a policy-oriented, establishment, academic institution into an anti-racist \u2018thinktank\u2019. The IRR began to concentrate on responding to the needs of Black people and making direct analyses of institutionalised racism in Britain and the rest of Europe. (For more information on the IRR\u2019s first fifty years, watch the\u00a0slide show on IRR\u2019s history.) Today, the IRR is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that inform the struggle for racial justice in Britain, Europe and internationally. It seeks to reflect the experiences of those who suffer racial oppression and draws its perspectives from the most vulnerable in society.\nURL: http:\/\/www.irr.org.uk\/about\/\n\u00a0 "}]}