Can buildings be racist? No!
On GB News, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert ridicules the Welsh government’s anti-racist training and questions their educational priorities.
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The State We’re In!
On Friday 28 June, DDU director Alka Sehgal Cuthbert was joined by four DDU Advisory Council members to discuss what might happen with the UK General Election 2024 – in particular, what a Labour government would be like.
An incident at a state secondary school in Wakefield, Yorkshire: a cautionary tale
When a 14-year-old boy scuffed a copy of the Koran at Kettlethorpe School in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, all hell broke loose. In an extended essay, one writer examines what happened and the worrying reaction to it.
DDU Lesson 6 – What can we learn from Frederick Douglass?
Frederick Douglass is the renowned ‘prophet of freedom’: the most important African American of the 19th century, who escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist, the greatest orator of his day and a leading writer of the era.
A secondary school teacher’s experience of anti-racism
The author is a secondary teacher of many years who wishes to remain anonymous. The summer term of 2020, still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was spent doing online learning as schools were still closed. We had got into a fairly good routine, albeit with online lessons. It is a school in the […]
Book reviews: Minority Reports
Professor Eric Kaufman reviews a group of recent books by Rakib Ehsan, Sunder Katwala, Remi Adekoya and Tomiwa Owolade.
Against Decolonisation
Jim Butcher reviews Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
Book review: ‘Beyond Grievance: What the left gets wrong about ethnic minorities’
Graeme Kemp proclaims Rakib Ehsan’s book as an invaluable contribution to the debate about race and identity politics in the UK today.
Media coverage for DDU’s report, ‘Who are the experts?’
DDU’s second report, Who Are the Experts? An investigation into anti-racist third-party organisations in schools received wide coverage, both for the report itself and for specific findings within it. (You can read the report here.) Contested racial views taught as fact, says pressure groupThe Times, 11 July 2023 Pupils are being subjected to a “radical […]
Review: Imperial Heartland by David Holland, Cambridge University Press
Hardeep Singh explores a fascinating history that offers complex human realities instead of reductive moralising fables.
