What’s in a word? Modelling British History for a ‘Multi-racial’ Society

Sutherland, Claire (2023) What’s in a word? Modelling British History for a ‘Multi-racial’ Society. Race Ethnicity and Education. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1361-3324 (In Press)

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2022.2160775

Abstract

In March 2022 the United Kingdom (UK) government published Inclusive Britain: the government’s response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. This accepts the ‘bad apple’ understanding of racism but is incurious as to the historical context and existing power relations shaping racist attitudes, thereby creating a tension with its stated aim of developing a model history curriculum. This article will address two, key issues resulting from this tension: Firstly, it unpicks Inclusive Britain’s handling of race and, secondly, adopts a decolonial standpoint to critique its recommendation on how to make the school history curriculum more inclusive. The article concludes that Inclusive Britain’s vision of the UK as ‘multi-racial’ serves to re-establish racial categories as an unquestioned and unproblematic series of fixed, reified identities, without acknowledging the hierarchies and uneven power relations inherent in racial terminology.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: race, racism, inclusivity, history, curriculum
Subjects: L400 Social Policy
V300 History by topic
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 20 Dec 2022 11:37
Last Modified: 26 Jul 2024 03:30
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50957

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