Write me a 3000 word essay on the question:
Forty years on, is the New Cross Fire of 1981 and its aftermath still controversial and why? Make sure to use at least 15 references and use the required reading to base your arguments. The introduction should make sure that you understand what the question is asking, what you think you will need to do to answer it and and how you intend to structure the discussion that follows. Make sure you cite using the Chicago or MHRA style and that you make a bilography at the end citing all the sources you have used. Make sure this essay narrates the context of Britain at the time, the thoughts on race and how it has been in modern days.
Below are the sources that must be used but you can use some additonal outside ones if you need also.
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- Gilroy, Paul, ‘There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’ : the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, Routledge Classics ed.. (London: Routledge, 2002), ch. 3, especially pages 84-129
- Aaron Andrews, ‘Truth, Justice, and Expertise in 1980s Britain: the Cultural Politics of the New Cross Massacre’, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 182–209
- Carol Pierre, ‘The New Cross Fire of 1981 and its aftermath’ in, Hakim Adi, Black British History : New Perspectives (London: Zed Books, 2019)
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- Bunce, R. E. R., and Paul Field, Renegade : the Life and Times of Darcus Howe (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), ch. 14, ‘Thirteen Dead and Nothing Said’