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Developing anti-racist practice at Cowgate Centre for Under 5s, Edinburgh

Racism pervades every aspect of life in Scotland. In 1989, on our own doorstep in Cowgate, racist youths attacked Somalian student Axmed Abuukar Sheekh and his Somalian friend.
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The problem with patriotism

Patriotism is having a moment. From French President Emmanuel Macron’s claim that patriotism is ‘the exact opposite of nationalism’ to UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s call for party members to be ‘proud of being patriotic’, centrist and progressive politicians are appealing to patriotism as a bulwark against the rise of right-wing nationalism.
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Anti-racism: a teacher trade unionist perspective

If we want to create a more equal society, where everyone is valued, then we need to take action. Surely this is especially the case for teachers?
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From Hurricane Katrina to George Floyd

The murder of George Floyd in the spring of 2020 sparked an outcry against police brutality and racial injustice in the United States. In the wake of the killing, support for the Black Lives Matter movement rose sharply among white Americans.
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Race: a never-ending taboo in France

Cross-posted from the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs – Blog post by Jean Beaman Recent events in France have revealed how race remains such a loaded concept in French society. …
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Deja vu or progress – reflections of a retired HM Inspector of Education

Every so often, we all have a reflective moment where we think about where we are and what are we doing. For me, it has been reflecting on my work in Education, in particular race equality, across almost four decades.
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The black Millwall fan - 'unpacking' a footballing juxtaposition?

While never entirely going away, the relationship between football fandom and racism has over the past few months come into renewed focus.
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Moving toward antiracist family engagement

In 2020, not only did the United States government fail in supporting the country’s most vulnerable and historically marginalized families, many of our schools did as well.
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Governing ‘ethnic diversity’ through urban planning in Bogotá

In the wake of Colombia’s national branding as a pluri-ethnic nation, on the one hand, and of Black and Indigenous social movements denouncing racism, ethno-racial inequality, systemic necropolitics (Mbembe, 2003; Alves, 2014) and social injustice, on the other hand, Bogotá’s municipal ‘multicultural turn’ in the 2010s seemed a precious opportunity to partly reconcile the ambivalent reality of Colombia’s multiculturalism.
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The Roma Holocaust, contemporary racism and the question of gallows humour

Blog post by Madeline Potter, University of YorkIn the comedy special ‘His Dark Material’, Jimmy Carr joked about the Roma Holocaust:‘When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy […]
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The Chancellor Balfour Declaration: our university, imperial knowledge and the racialised global order

On July 8 1903, the first Allied Colonial University Conference took place at the Hotel Cecil on the Thames Embankment in London. The development of knowledge production and university networks was meant to foster British imperial rule.
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The role of nativist discourse in racist ideology

'Refugees must be taught how to best fit in': so reads the title of Times columnist Clare Foges following the fall of Afghanistan in August 2021 to the Taliban and the subsequent mass exodus of Afghan men, women and children towards Britain.

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