Institutional racism in higher education / edited by Ian Law, Deborah Phillips and Laura Turney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Law, Ian.

Phillips, Deborah, 1952 September 27-

Turney, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in education--Great Britain.

Discrimination in education.

Great Britain.

Racism--Great Britain.

Racism.

Education, Higher--Great Britain.

Education, Higher.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 166 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Stoke on Trent, UK ; Sterling, VA : Trentham Books, [2004]

Summary:

This book reports on leading edge research on racism in higher education -- a matter that has received far less attention than racism in schools. The result of a HEFCE funded project led by the editors, the book examines the evidence of institutional racism in HE and prepares for the web-based guide to assist institutional change. Higher education, like other public institutions, now has a legal duty to plan and implement race equality. The chapters here are drawn from presentations by leading social science researchers at a conference at the University of Leeds in 2002. The conference made it possible, for the first time since the Policy Studies Institute study of 1998, to assess the extent and nature of racism in HE institutions today, and the structural constraints on change. There are also accounts of positive new responses to these issues. This important book is for managers, academics and teachers in higher education, for policy makers and professionals concerned with race equality, and for students of the social sciences.

Contents:

Part 1 Challenging Racism in Higher Education

Chapter 1 Ivory Towers? The Academy and Racism / Les Back 1

Chapter 2 Black and White Paradigms in Higher Education / William A. Gulam 7

Chapter 3 Institutional Racism in the Academy? Comparing the Police and University in Midshire / Andrew Pilkington 15

Chapter 4 Understanding Institutional Racism / Jacques Rangasamy 27

Part 2 Higher Education Experiences

Chapter 5 The Others: extremism and intolerance on campus and the spectre of Islamic fundamentalism / David Tyrer 35

Chapter 6 Fish in or out of water: a theoretical framework for race and the space of academia / Nirmal Purwar 49

Chapter 7 Unveiling South Asian Female Identities post September 11: Asian female students' sense of identity and experiences of higher education / Shirin Housee 59

Chapter 8 'It is possible to have an education and be a Traveller': Education, Higher Education and Gypsy/Travellers in Britain / Colin Clark 71

Chapter 9 Disability and Racial Discrimination in Employment in Higher Education / Ozcan Konur 83

Part 3 Agendas for Change

Chapter 10 Tackling Institutional Racism in Higher Education: An Antiracist Toolkit / Ian Law, Deborah Phillips, Laura Turney 93

Chapter 11 Transforming the Curriculum? The problem with multiculturalism / Sanjay Sharma 105

Chapter 12 The Equality Challenge Unit and the Race Relations(Amendment) Act 2000: A Developmental Approach to Implementation in Higher Education / Joyce Hill, Emmanuell Kusemamuriwo 119

Part 4 Theorising Persistent Racisms

Chapter 13 Discourse on Institutional Racism, the genealogy of a concept / Barnor Hesse 131

Chapter 14 Slippery People: the immigrant imaginary and the grammar of colours / Salman Sayyid 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1858563135

OCLC:

55952493