11: Speaking Back and Seeing Beyond the Landscapes of Hate

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This chapter focuses on the range of everyday encounters of racism or ‘microaggressions’ that people from ethnic minorities experience, the impact it has, and the opportunities to challenge this hostility through, for example, anti-racist youth work education. The authors provide an excerpt from their own conversations and reflections to provide an account that illustrates the ways in which those involved in the research on hate have often themselves been victimized by hate and how these lived experiences shape, and are shaped by, and mirror, their research. The chapter also draws on qualitative research with young people in the north of England, to explore two responses to racism: ‘reactive’, an immediate response to the situation, and ‘proactive’, measured responses formulated through resistance, resilience and agency. The chapter concludes by arguing that for young people safe space affords an opportunity to speak back and see beyond landscapes of hate.

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