A BSA Sociology of Education Study Group One-Day Conference in association with the Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University. 5 July 2017 At Canterbury Christ Church University, UK PROGRAMME This one-day conference, supported by the BSA’s Education Study Group, focuses… Read More ›
This week, Dr. Piper Harron, mathematics professor based at the University of Hawaii, and a vocal feminist and supporter of under-represented groups in the academic mathematics community, published a provocative blogpost on the website of the AMS (American Mathematical Society), in… Read More ›
By Joseph Derrick Nelson For over a decade, amid widespread neoliberal education reform in the United States, single-sex schools for boys of color have increased in popularity among urban school districts. The growing interest in this school model is… Read More ›
A study waiting to be done. Somebody? Here is the trigger: So: how is academia.edu reproducing and reinforcing inequality? By spatially positioning the male academic above; By choosing an older male academic and a younger female; By listing the male as… Read More ›
BSA Regional Postgraduate Event: Black women in the academy: ‘inclusion’ or erasure from the social sciences? Date: Tuesday, 20th September 2016, Ballroom, Keele University Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Alexander (University of Manchester) and Professor Kalwant Bhopal (University of Southampton) Event… Read More ›
Tenure Denied At Dartmouth, an Asian-American professor receives unanimous English department backing and is rejected at higher levels. The same happened to a black historian at the college. Many see a disturbing pattern. More on this story on Inside Higher… Read More ›
reviewed by Sadia Habib Diversity, Equality and Achievement in Education by Gianna Knowles and Vini Lander (Sage, 2011) Intentional and unintentional racism is very much still a part of today’s society experienced by people of colour in everyday situations… Read More ›
Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” (2000) cited in “What Group?” Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of “Color-Blindness” by AMANDA E. LEWIS (2004)
by Dr Shamim Miah Don’t BELIEVE THE HYPE Don’t, don’t, don’t Don’t, don’t, don’t Back, caught you looking for the same thing It’s a new thing, check out this I bring Uhh, oh, the roll below the level, cause I’m… Read More ›
This seems like an important project: Please do circulate these details for a Research Officer at the LSE to examine ‘Race in the Academy’. This is an exciting qualitative research project that will examine the factors behind the lack of black… Read More ›
by Shamim Miah The last decade has witnessed a number of prominent police‐led operations relating to child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England. Whilst much of the public discourse related to Operation Yewtree, Operation Fernbridge, and others has focused on the… Read More ›
In the aftermath of the terrible events in Charleston, there were politicians attempting to deny the racist nature of the terror that struck the Black people of Charleston, while educators were working hard to challenge the spurious notions of a post-racial USA… Read More ›
A few days ago, Sadia Habib posted this excellent cartoon on our Twitter feed: #racism #race pic.twitter.com/cwo7EMdJzS — Socio Imagination (@Soc_Imagination) June 13, 2015 This sadly defunct website explores the same theme. Many extremely offensive though often strangely interesting examples… Read More ›
Recently I have been catching up on publications about diversity, ethnicity and multiculturalism. The following books, written or edited by academics from a range of backgrounds including the Social Sciences, Geography, Population Studies have provided a broad and engaging insight… Read More ›
“Go Home”: Mapping Immigration Controversy End of Project Conference REGISTER HERE June 10th, 9.30am – 6.30pm, University of Warwick, Social Sciences Building This one day conference is aimed at academics and activists interested in discussing the findings of the Mapping… Read More ›
Muslims, Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation by Shamim Miah ‘Integration’ or the supposed lack of it by British Muslims has been a ubiquitous feature in political, media and policy discourses over the past decades, often with little or no evidence… Read More ›
This powerful video was produced by the UCL student union. They explain the background to the project here: In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, ’42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected… Read More ›
UK Hip Hop artist Swiss interrogating the widespread use of “Nigger”. Powerful messages: I don’t change colour, but they call me a coloured man! The language of Black: blackmail, black-hearted, black sheep, blacklist, black magic! Skin-bleach because wanting to be… Read More ›
School students at Book T Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia (USA) walked out of school in protest after nothing was done when they reported a racist retweet by a staff member at the school. Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/black-students-walk-out-over-school-officials-tweet-every-white-girls-fathers-worse-nightmare/… Read More ›
I have been struck by the on-line antagonism to US President Obama’s relatively muted response to the civil unrest in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, which followed the shooting of a black youth by a white police officer…. Read More ›
In January 2014, I interviewed the writer and Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing Benjamin Zephaniah about his thoughts on British identity and belonging to Britain. I began by informing him of my research on students’ perceptions of Britishness. My… Read More ›
Recently I have been reading up on contemporary social and cultural geography’s take on race and racism, and I have come across a very interesting and useful edited collection by Claire Dwyer and Caroline Bressey (from the Department of Geography… Read More ›
Workshop on Race, Racism and Digital Communications, 10.30-1pm, Gillian Rose Room (R3.25), Ramphal Building, University of Warwick [with the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, Warwick] Discussion featuring Alana Lentin, Sanjay Sharma, Kirsten Forkert and Nathaniel Tkacz on transformation of race… Read More ›
Race, Place and Globalization: Youth Cultures in a Changing World by Professor Anoop Nayak provides a useful insight into the growing area of youth studies by highlighting the nature of youth identity and how it connects to local space and… Read More ›
Taking up the challenge that Paul Warmington set for The Guardian readers to name ‘a Black British intellectual, now that Stuart Hall is gone’, I found myself simultaneously nodding my assent to his well-reasoned tribute to an inspirational role model… Read More ›
We featured a documentary film last month called Absent from the Academy which explored the lack of black academics in UK higher education. So it was great to see the director and producer of the film, who is a PhD student at… Read More ›
There’s a fascinating and powerful essay by Yasmin Gunaratnam on Media Diversity UK exploring the contemporary politics of race and strategies for avoiding ‘the disease of thinking in essences’. It discusses “the appetite to make things easier, with minimal thought and effort”… Read More ›
Sports got political on Sunday. NBC sportscaster Bob Costas utilized a halftime moment to talk about a longstanding issue: The use of Washington’s Football team name, the R*dskins. I noticed a reaction on my Facebook- from someone who was not… Read More ›
Absent From The Academy from A Narrative Media on Vimeo. (HT Gurminder K Bhambra)