Race has been a prominent public policy issue in the UK for decades and there is growing interest in academia, but it is often caught in a repetitive cycle of progress and regress. This book analyses and bridges that gap by providing a unique insight into the relationship between race and ethnicity scholarship and the reality of ‘real world’ policy and politics.
Drawing on the author’s academic work as well as his background working in public policy bodies, it goes beyond ‘impact’ debates, public sociology, diversity and post-race, to examine the changing context for researching race and racism, including media and policy debates and the ways in which institutional racism has played out in public policy settings since the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
Combining theory and applied policy analysis in an accessible way, it guides the reader through the cultural and political changes in race and racism in recent decades and identifies the challenges and opportunities for policy and politically-engaged scholarship in future, clearly mapping the pitfalls and possibilities for critical work on race and racism.
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79 FOUR Sociology and institutional racism1 All the approaches to scholarly engagement discussed in Chapter Three looks towards a more outward-facing academy, although there are significant differences in what that should entail. Institutional racism, especially in the Macpherson inquiry (1999), provides a way into understanding public engagement by social scientists; it also sets the scene for assessing the impact of social science in policy and practice, and the academic–policy interface. These issues are developed in this chapter and the following two
Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities.
Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of the intersectional inequalities that such realities gloss over.
This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.
In this unique global collection, Gary Craig and his contributors blend theory and practice-based case studies to review how different community development approaches can empower minority ethnic communities to confront racism and overcome social, economic and political disadvantage.
The book explores key questions about the empowerment and capacity-building of minority ethnic groups. Using case studies from across the ‘developed’ world, and in differing social and economic contexts, contributors explore these issues in working with asylum-seeker communities, addressing tensions between minorities and building alliances, in work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and using arts-based approaches.
The book will stimulate wider debates about the role of community development in relation to ‘race’ and ethnicity at a time when ‘race’ is being ‘invisibilised’ in public policy, and will be an invaluable resource for policy-makers, politicians, academics, and students from many disciplines.
15 ONE Race, racism, and health outcomes That patterns of health, sickness, and mortality vary on the basis of race is irrefutable, and this has made race a major ‘variable’ in research in the medical and health sciences. Cross-national data reveal that in every race-conscious nation in the world, racially dominant groups are healthier and live longer than racially subordinate groups (Williams, 2012). But what is race? And through what mechanisms does it affect health? Definitions of race have shifted in recent decades, and it is now seen as more of a
Racism has no place in our society, we are told. In fact, its role is crucial but today public debate on race in Britain is constrained by a facile post-racialism. Its features are colourblind narratives, an ‘anti-antiracist’ discourse and erasure of black working class identities.
This book examines and challenges the marginalisation of critical race analysis in debates on social justice. It reconceptualises Critical Race Theory from a British standpoint, foregrounding the concept of ‘permanent racism’ and its importance in understanding race as a fully social relationship.
Highlighting the need to decolonise public debate and antiracism itself, the book provides an essential resource for academics, students and activists who wish to decolonise public debates on racism, social class, education and social policy.
119 SIX The end(s) of institutional racism1 The double rise of institutional racism in Britain, once from the late 1960s and then in the late 1990s – is an extraordinary example of an idea moving from a radical or revolutionary movement into social science (Chapter Four), and then from the margins into the mainstream, becoming part of public policy initiatives that focused on institutions rather than on individuals and on structures as well as processes (Chapter Five). In spite of its prominence following the publication of the Macpherson report (1999
Introduction ‘Structural and institutional inequality is real and it’s everywhere. Racism is lived and experienced by our friends, neighbours, colleagues, teachers, doctors and in all our communities’ ( Zammit, 2020 ). This was written by a young friend of mine and it inspired me to reflect deeply on these issues and to write about them. Racism is alive and well in 2020, the time of this writing. Ethnic and racial discrimination and inequality not only exist but are thriving in our global society. How do we know? If your skin is black, you know. As Delpit
the US, we are only now beginning to excavate the truth—this book is but a part of that puzzle. Thus, although we are only just beginning to see scholarship that digs into the realities of indigenous brewing and drinking cultures, that investigates both free and enslaved Africans’ relationship with beer and distilled spirits (both on and off the plantation), and that gets us to think through the ways in which race and racism impacted historical and contemporary realities of beer and beer culture, one interesting place to look at the early racial formation
237 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 3 • no 2 • 237–44 • © Policy Press 2015 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986015X14331614909031 Asylum, immigration and anti-racism – an interview with Amal Azzudin Laura Penketh, penketl@hope.ac.uk Liverpool Hope University, UK The fight against asylum and immigration policies and their punitive impact on young people and their families was given high-profile media and political attention when the ‘Glasgow Girls’ at Drumchapel High School campaigned against the
