A powerful book comprising stories of anti-racist action by higher education scholars including researchers and teachers at various stages of their careers. Aimed at and relevant for anyone in education, it encourages reflection on the tolerance of racist structures and strategies to help enact positive change.

An edited volume, each chapter discusses the author's experiences of racism, including how they became part of anti-racist teaching activism through a growing understanding of the impact of racism in education. Common themes are highlighted throughout so readers can engage with relevant ideas and issues to draw inspiration for their own anti-racist action.

The book draws attention to the idea that while discussion is welcome, it should be a pre-cursor to focused action. It shows exactly how university lecturers, teachers and anyone involved in education can contribute in a meaningful way to the change that is needed. To promote critical thinking, each chapter includes challenging questions and suggested additional readings/resources.

About the Author

Geetha Marcus is a senior lecturer in teacher education at The University of Edinburgh. She is a sociologist, feminist, and teacher activist whose research and teaching interests focus on social inequalities within public education systems. She has extensive professional experience in the field of primary education, both in classroom practice and in senior management. As a practitioner-researcher she believes there is an urgent need for teachers to employ education methods for justice-oriented social change.

Stefanie Van de Peer is an academic whose area of expertise is women in documentary and world cinema. She is a film historian interested in non-mainstream filmmaking such as activist non-fiction and animation. Central questions in her research focus on power structures, identity formation and emancipation. She has professional experience with several international film festivals as coordinator, programmer, curator, and board member.

Reviews

"This book is dripping with hope wrung from struggle, Every chapter and every page tells a white story, a black story and then a story, more universal despite all the critical diversity, of change. Even when the odds are stacked. Even when no one is with you. Even when you alone, and black and exposed in the appalling loneliness of leadership each of these scholars of sociology show that there is change if you stay with the trouble and the troubling of self, structure, system and story...

-- Alison Phipps OBE * Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow *

...There is no recipe or gantt chart; no log frame or linear programme that can be deduced from each story in this book. Instead, in a turn from sociology and social science to the beating heart of the humanities there is a conclusion in love, in care, compassion and connection. And it is this that speaks to the authenticity and fluidity of this fraught moment in history and in sociology. The fact that a combination of love and scholarship - not either or but both add - bring us, again, to that earlier decolonial and hopeful moment of the legacy of Paulo Freire: "No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation" (Pedagogy of the Oppressed). I commend this book to all students of sociology and as a vision of the storying of futures of care, compassion and connection fiercely grounded in rigour, public telling and intellectual thought"

-- Alison Phipps OBE * Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow *

"This timely book encourages readers to consider their own positionality and 'narrative' in relation to anti-racist thinking and learning...a dynamic team of contributors from a wide variety of academic and professional fields... gives a vibrant multi-dimensional lens through which to view the contents of the book. The collected material is both engaging and pertinent and has a specific focus on how to understand and facilitate effective race equity and anti-racist pedagogy...This book supports the reader in gaining insight and a new of way of seeing the world. It interrogates what can be done to address injustice and the systemic causes of racial inequity, thus ensuring a collective responsibility for change within the sector."

-- Dr Susan Davis * Reader in Diversity and Equity in Education, Cardiff Metropolitan University *



Book Information
ISBN 9781915713001
Author Geetha Marcus
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Critical Publishing Ltd
Publisher Critical Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 380g
Dimensions(mm) 219mm * 139mm * 13mm