ABSTRACT

If you have a commitment to educational equality, and a society where people have equal chances of success regardless of their skin tone or ethnic background, this book’s detailed research-based accounts of systematic and deep rooted racism will sadden and shock you. Alternatively, perhaps you believe that race issues are a peripheral matter, much less pressing than class or gender, or that things are gradually improving as policy makes incremental step-by-step improvements; if so, this book offers a direct challenge by arguing that race inequality should be placed centre-stage as a fundamental axis of oppression.