In response to Louise Taylor's article about a White academic's 'challenging journey' as they researched students' experience of anti-Black racism in a university, Sarah Gillborn and David Gillborn further explore how racism is woven through the past and present of psychology as a discipline. [For the original article, "Seeking Equality of…

Crude and dangerous ideas about the genetic heritability of intelligence, and a supposed biological basis for the Black/White achievement gap, are alive and well inside the education policy process but taking new and more subtle forms. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the paper analyses recent hereditarian writing, in the UK and the USA, and…

It is tempting to view the Blairite legacy as a simple story of political hypocrisy: a government, swept to power after almost two decades of Conservative rule, promising much but reneging on those commitments and falling back on Thatcherite authoritarian popularism when the going got tough. But that would be too simple a story. The Blairite…

The Nobel Prize winning scientist James Watson was vilified when his views on the supposedly inherent deficiencies of black people became public. The scientific establishment, mainstream media and politicians joined a chorus of disapproval that would seem to evidence a widespread rejection of the old myths of racially ordered intelligence.…

The British educational system continues to exclude black male students in disproportionate numbers. Concerted and sustained policies are needed to achieve social justice, including a curriculum relevant to all students, ethnic monitoring, development of a new system to meet students' needs, and development of short-term and long-term strategies.…

Dominant conceptions of race, racism, and antiracism are becoming increasingly untenable. Based on research inside multiethnic schools, this paper explores the possibilities for a new, critical, and grounded approach to antiracism. It combines new research findings on antiracist practice in English secondary schools and a critical review of recent…

Uses data from English comprehensive schools to suggest that schools teach the reality of second class citizenship for African-American people through a hidden curriculum. Argues that teachers have the opportunity to challenge stereotypes and empower students by putting antiracist principles into practice. Stresses the need to recognize and…

Explores how issues of "race," racism, and ethnicity are positioned within the education reforms reshaping the British schooling system. Exposes the new racist constructions of "the nation" and its "common culture" expressed through the marketization of schooling and willed ignorance about the extent and nature of…

Qualitative research techniques were used to explore questions of pedagogy and lived student experience in two English secondary schools that have given multicultural education a high priority. The paper focuses on the roles and experiences of students aged 11 to 16, examining their pivotal role in supporting and extending antiracist developments.…

This book focuses on race at work in the British educational system, a concern that is pertinent because education occupies a pivotal role in contemporary race politics. The study on which it is based blends school-based research with a critical reading of policy and theory. The experiences of teachers in real schools show that schools can…

Considers the reaction to anti-racist change among white British secondary school students. Efforts to include the students in this process have included the conceptualization of white ethnicity. Discusses the development of this concept and efforts to keep it free of racist and nationalist sentiments. (MJP)