ABSTRACT
Racism is the process of making something about a person or a group of people who are unlike in some way or ways appear to be inherently bad. Jane Lane in her book written for the National Children’s Bureau in 2008 said that institutional racism might be defined as being made up of the essential structures, policies, practices, behaviours and attitudes whereby some people are treated less equally and hence unfairly solely on the basis of their ethnicity, skin colour, religion, language, nationality or religion. Institutional racism is rather different and the clearest explanation of it comes from Iran Siraj-Blatchford’s book The Early Years: Laying the Foundations for Racial Equality, first published in 1994. All children construct their identities from their experiences and through their interactions. This includes seeing themselves as unique, one member of a family and also as part of a group or groups who share a culture.
