ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at superficial multicultural education and more enlightened antiracist education. It examines Britain’s historical legacy of race class, gender and Empire, and looks at the way was represented in the school curriculum of the early twentieth century. The chapter discusses racism post-Brexit: social justice and the Theresa May government that began in July 2016. It begins with a few words about the nature of multicultural Britain. The racializing of Asian pupils/students as ‘language problems’ has had a deleterious effect on their academic progress. The chapter considers the effects of the arrival in the British education system of the daughters and sons of the racialized migrant workers, and looks at how they, in turn, became racialized through schooling, and thereby constructed as a problem. It also looks at how the children were racialized through schooling in the post-Second World War economy.
