How To Tell People They Sound Racist

In case you missed this, the presenter (Jay Smooth) offers some useful practical knowledge…

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Encyclopaedia of Race and Ethnic Studies – Review

Book review of: Ellis Cashmore (ed), Encyclopaedia of Race and Ethnic Studies, London: Routledge, 2004
What are encyclopaedias good for?
In an age of information over-load, the implosion of meanings and forever sliding signifiers, has the imperious authority of such texts been undermined? Or conversely, precisely because of our amnesiac contemporary culture caught [...]

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Anti-racist/non-Eurocentric Critical Pedagogy – some provocations

Below are some notes (a handout) for the talk I gave at the Migrating University event at Goldsmiths, 14 June 2007:

Critical pedagogies attempt to distinguish the method (how we teach) from the content (what we teach)…”we teach students how to critically think, not what to think”. But can we really hold on to [...]

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