ABSTRACT
Sometimes a topic is so vast, so overwhelming, that it is a little difficult to know where to start. Those interested in promoting a fairer university wanted me to explore possible implicit or unconscious biases, but I needed to understand the social and historical background for all of this, particularly with regard to race and ethnicity. I had my own experiences to draw upon, so I knew a little about how prejudice can operate, but, of course, religious prejudice in Northern Ireland, with its accompanying neighbourhood segregation, is one small part of something much bigger and I wanted to think more generally about issues to do with racial or ethnic prejudice.
