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Don’t Divide Us:  Advance HE and the Race Equality Charter for universities
Don’t Divide Us:  Advance HE and the Race Equality Charter for universities

The Race Equality Charter (REC), overseen by Advance HE, is the product of its attempt to ‘do something’ about racism because, in the words of Chief Executive Alison Johns, the sector has ‘a legal and moral duty’ to do so. No one would dispute the need for universities to do something about racism, but the extent of the problem and how to oppose it are (and always have been) questions for academics to address, not for bureaucratic, partisan prescription.

Don’t Divide Us:  Advance HE and the Race Equality Charter for universities
DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’
DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’

DDU Head of Education Strategy Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert responds to The Telegraph's story about 'The Black Nursery.'

DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’
ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board
ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board

Over the last couple of years Don’t Divide Us (DDU), a grassroots organisation, has been punching above its weight with successes in raising issues in the media and with politicians. To capitalise on this and to move to a more professional footing we are in the process of appointing new members to the team.

ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board
An Open Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council from Bola Anike and Don’t Divide Us
An Open Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council from Bola Anike and Don’t Divide Us

BHCC cannot and must not be allowed to marginalise, misrepresent or silence the voices of Black and ethnic minority parents and residents who oppose their anti-racist schools strategy.

An Open Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council from Bola Anike and Don’t Divide Us
DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools
DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools

DDU believe the government can do more to prevent race based indoctrination in schools.

DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools
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Academic Decolonisation: The Slippery Slope of Dismantling Knowledge

The discourse surrounding academic decolonisation furnishes today’s intellectual and moralistic justifications for racism, argues Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert Although some proponents of ...
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Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias

The concept of unconscious bias is "the child of neoliberalism", argues Jenny Bourne of the Institute of Race Relations. According ...
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The fight to redefine racism

Kelefa Sanneh unpacks the new thinking about race elaborated in Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and Robin ...
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Race is not the disadvantage it once was in the UK

Reflecting on her own experience of growing up in an ethnic minority family in the UK, Shabnam Nasimi wonders whether ...
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We need to talk about Black Lives Matter

We should be able to discuss Black Lives Matter critically, argues Andrew Doyle, and not simply assume that its objectives ...
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Racism is a problem, white people are not

Contemporary politics is often driven by "cultural or psychological anxieties", argues Kenan Malik. We need to consider social and structural ...
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When will the trade unions speak up?

A rigid orthodoxy "demands diversity in everything but opinion", says Paul Embery at Unherd. By failing to challenge it, trade ...
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White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief

What happens, asks Helen Pluckrose, when an ideology holds that beliefs other than its own are harmful and oppressive of ...
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Opening Pandora’s Box

Teacher and educational researcher Greg Ashman warns that "once you have opened up Pandora’s Box, you cannot put the bad ...
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On ‘White Fragility’

Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller has "a simple message", argues Matt Taibbi: "there is no such thing as a universal human experience, ...
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Stop apologising for cultural appropriation

The concept of "cultural appropriation” has gone from the esoteric academic realm of post-colonial and decolonial studies, to being a ...
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“Can You Really Teach Kids Not To Be Racist?”

“Can you really teach kids not to be racist?” asks Tom Chivers at Unherd: It’s powerful television, and incredibly uncomfortable ...
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The dehumanising condescension of ‘White Fragility’

Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, argues John McWhorter, is "the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult": In ...
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Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist

Lloyd Evans recounts his experience of an online training programme designed to teach 'racial sensitivity': I couldn’t help concluding that ...
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We’re facing a tsunami of censorship

"The authoritarian tide is rising", warns Toby Young in the Spectator. It's now "open season on mavericks and dissenters". How ...
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The threat to civil liberties goes way beyond ‘cancel culture’

We are facing a "historic disaster", argues Leigh Phillips writing in Jacobin. Today's so-called progressives "have become indifferent to free ...
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Channel 4 – ‘The School That Tried To End Racism’

Last weekend, I watched both episodes of a Channel 4 documentary called The School That Tried To End Racism which ...
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The problem with identity politics

In this Q&A interview, Asad Haider, author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, reflects on ...
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Keep critical race theory out of the classroom

Re-printed with the kind permission of Spiked. Channel 4’s The School That Tried To End Racism revealed the backwardness of racial thinking ...
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Is unconscious-bias training the new Brain Gym?

More and more people are recommending that unconscious-bias training should be brought into schools to tackle racism. This is a ...
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Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous

Nick Buckley wrote a blog post criticising Black Lives Matter, and found himself targeted by an online petition to have ...
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The Tyranny of Groupthink

"Call it 'Wokeness' or 'Groupthink'", what we are seeing the spread of a "virus of ideological conformity", says Josef Joffe ...
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What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?

“What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?” asks David Butterfield in The Spectator: Have I really chosen the career ...
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Let kids be kids

The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism, argues Ella Whelan: It’s this fetishisation of white self hatred ...
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