ABSTRACT

Why does the visible matter so much in this world? Why does everything seem to come down to what we see, to what is skin-deep, to what is on the surface? No matter what anti-racist science says, and it currently says we are all the same, from the same common ancestor ‘out of Africa’, in Britain young Black people, those marked by physical, phenotypical, external, visible difference-those with dark skin, curly hair, almond eyes, full lips, proud noses-do not enjoy the same opportunities as young white people.