ABSTRACT
An awareness of the importance of challenging racism was not limited to London or to this country. In America in 1997 Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips wrote their seminal book Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism. There is clear evidence that, as immigration has increased, so has racism in this country, in the USA, and as revealed in the fascist governments elected in Brazil and Hungary and more. There seems to be a tendency to talk of bias rather than be direct in speaking of racism, which is much more focused. The history is important because the times have changed so that there is no ILEA, there is growing evidence of racism in our society and there are very few books written recently about the urgency of combatting racism in our settings and schools. There were areas where only white people could live and schools that only white children could be educated; restaurants where only white people ate.
