prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
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How is racism experienced?
Open racism – Openly rejected, ‘Othered’ and stereotyped. Verbal and/ or physical.
Casual racism – Sometimes difficult to identify/ call out.
Internalised racism - People feeling unhappy in themselves due to what they have been institutionally made to feel is right (white is right).
Systemic racism - Factors in society which make the lived experience different for people depending on the colour of their skin.
Intersectionality - People with multiple marginalised identities can experience this even more acutely (women, LGBTQ+, darker skinned, et.).
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Wider british and global events
George Floyd and BLM
Brexit
Racism in the media
Colonialism
Racial inequality
Grenfell
Windrush
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White Privilege
One of the easiest ways to define “white privilege” is firstly to explore what it is not:
1. It is not saying that white people have never struggled
2. It is not assuming white people have not worked hard to achieve successes
What it is saying is that the colour of your skin is not one of the things making life hard.
Alexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, said she did not expect to “constantly justify my existence at work” after being mistaken for a defendant three times in one day.
To investigate whether a Muslim name is an obstacle to finding a flat or house share, the Guardian sent expressions of interest from “Muhammad” and “David” to almost 1,000 online advertisements for rooms across the UK. The results suggested it is – for every 10 positive replies David received, Muhammad got only eight.
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Microaggressions from teachers
Getting the foreign sounding names wrong every lesson