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Wales must confront uncomfortable truths about racism

Bethan Harries By Bethan Harries Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 26, 2014

Despite a long-established narrative of non-racism in Wales, the reality is that  racism persists and has real consequences, writes Dr Bethan Harries. This awkward truth must be acknowledged if the country is to make real progress in redressing racism and inequalities. In March this year an All Wales Race Conference was held in Cardiff – the first such […]

Tagged With: All Wales Race Conference, Plaid Cymru, race, racism, wales, Y Gwerin

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Racist attitudes – the barrier to ethnic minority employment?

Ken Clark By Ken Clark Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 18, 2014

Why do ethnic minorities still face discrimination in gaining employment?, asks Ken Clark. The issue of racial prejudice in British society has been in the news recently. Under the headline Racism on the rise in Britain, the Guardian reported on data from the British Social Attitudes Survey which showed that the proportion of respondents describing […]

Tagged With: employment, ethnic minority employment, labour market, racial discrimination, racial prejudice, racism

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Anti-racism struggles of the Seventies can inspire action today

Satnam Virdee By Satnam Virdee Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 12, 2014

Recovering the hidden history of past anti-racism struggles can help inspire collective action today, explains Professor Satnam Virdee. What is so important about the 1970s when it comes to understanding racism and anti-racism in Britain? The American political scientist Ira Katznelson suggests that to understand social change one should focus on those ‘moments when system creating choices […]

Tagged With: Anti-Nazi League, anti-racism, CCCS, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Grunwick, Ira Katznelson, Paul Gilroy, Robert Miles, Sivanandan, Walter Benjamin

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Whose housing crisis is it?

Nissa Finney By Nissa Finney Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: May 29, 2014

Shelter says there is a housing crisis, while the Bank of England fears an unsustainable property price bubble is underway. But, as Dr Nissa Finney explains, the housing crisis hits ethnic minorities worst. The UK is in a housing crisis, according to Shelter. This has been brought about by the shortage of housing coupled with […]

Tagged With: BBC, census, CoDE, Housing crisis, London, private rented accommodation, Shelter

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Time to tackle the big issues in black and minority ethnic mental health

Dawn Edge By Dawn Edge Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 28, 2014

Against the backdrop of continued policy failures, the time has come to do something that fundamentally changes the way African Caribbean people come into contact with mental health services, says Dr Dawn Edge. Decades of research consistently report that African Caribbean people in the UK are at significantly greater risk of being diagnosed with psychoses […]

Tagged With: African Caribbean, David Bennett, institutional racism, mental health

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Wrong, simplistic, unimaginative; dismantling Demos’s take on ethnic voting

Maria Sobolewska By Maria Sobolewska Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 25, 2014

Upwardly mobile ethnic minority voters are more likely to turn Tory, claims new research by thinktank Demos. But Dr Maria Sobolewska questions the methodology of the study and the validity of the conclusions. Demos has published a report on whether the Conservatives could avoid Romney’s famous death by demographics, and attract enough ethnic minority votes […]

Tagged With: Conservative, demos, elections, ethnic minorities, ethnicity, general election, Labour, marginal seats, social mobility, voting

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Statues in the park are not just figures from the past

Andrew Smith By Andrew Smith Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 24, 2014

Statues in our public parks tell us much about the British sense of identity, argues Dr Andrew Smith. Empire is everywhere in Britain, even if it is rarely noticed. Our parks are a case in point. When I walk through Glasgow’s central park, I pass repeated symbols of Victorian imperial glory resting in what has […]

Tagged With: British Empire, Earl Roberts, Glasgow, John Darwin, public parks, statues, Thomas Carlyle, Unfinished Empire: the Global Expansion of Britain

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Is the picture of Pakistani self-employment really so rosy?

Ken Clark By Ken Clark Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 9, 2014

There is economic vibrancy in Asian-dominated areas of the UK, driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of the self-employed, according to some reports. But, says Ken Clark, analysis of official statistics reveals a rather less rosy picture.  Asian-dominated areas of the UK are booming, according to The Economist – in stark contrast to “struggling white towns”. The credit for this boom […]

Tagged With: employment, ethnicity, labour market, pakistani, self-employment

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