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'Racism exists in me' - a challenge to Scottish education leaders to reflect on their positionality

Great educational leadership might previously have acknowledged that racism exists. A bigger challenge within educational leadership, and our collective professional learning, is to take the step towards understanding that ‘racism exists in me.’
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Cities of Sanctuary in environments of hostilityRAC

During a period of fieldwork carried out in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of Sanctuary, between April 2018 and November 2019, I volunteered with a charity supporting asylum seekers.
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Solidarity in strange places?

You might reasonably wonder what Muay Thai or Kickboxing has got to do with race or division? Or what the niche sports of Muay Thai and Kickboxing are in the first place.
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Disrupting hegemonic whiteness in the higher education classroom

There is currently revived interest across disciplines and educational institutions to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ (Arshad, 2020). There are many layers to this, from diversifying reading lists to unpacking racist underpinnings of key concepts, from deconstructing representations of history to hiring more Black and Minority Ethnic staff.
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So you don’t think microaggressions have an impact?

Microaggressions are often shrugged off by perpetrators because of a supposed lack of intent. But intent and impact are very different indeed, says rashné limki.
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RACE.ED Newsletter – December 2021

We are pleased to share this RACE.ED round-up newsletter with you. In another challenging year of distances, interpersonally from our friends and families, societally from the racial justice we seek, […]
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White, but not quite: identity development in Arab American adolescents

Cross-posted from Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power – Blog post by Rhonda Tabbah
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Opportunities for anti-racist education in predominantly all-white areas using place-based education

Cross-posted from CERES – Blog post by Kari Giordano, Mount Everett Regional School, USAPlace-based education has been embraced by some rural communities as a method of connecting students to their local […]
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Colonial legacies and refusal in women’s networks

Cross-posted from Gifford Lecture Series 2020-2021, Lecture 5: Women’s Networks: Opportunities and LimitationsBlog post by Dr Katucha Bento, Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies, Associate Director of Race.ED Network, co-founder […]
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Gender equalities at work: Black and Asian women and the misrecognition of intersectional justice claims

Cross-posted from genderED – Blog post by Ashlee Christoffersen, University of Edinburgh, UK
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'Black death' in repeat mode

Cross-posted from Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power – Blog post by Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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The populist hype, the people and the far right

An interview with Aurelien Mondon, by Giorgos Venizelos. This interview was first published in Populism, Issue 4, July 2021.You keynoted the 5th annual Populism Specialist Group workshop which focused on […]

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