My father, Lou Kushnick, who has died aged 86, was a lecturer and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester with a particular interest in race relations.
In the 1970s he set up a third-year degree module entitled “race and class in the US”, a course that was taken by the black activist Olive Morris. He was vice-chair of the Institute of Race Relations for 20 years from 1978, and a regular contributor to its journal, Race & Class, as well as an editor of the academic publication Sage Race Relations Abstracts.
