In my university, white staff don’t educate themselves on racism, while BAME staff are chastised for raising the issue
I’m an academic of colour at one of the country’s elite universities. My large department has never hired a black academic to a permanent position, and academic staffing remains overwhelmingly white. Yet when I point to the absence of diversity in my department, I am often reassured – without concrete evidence – that we are making “good progress”. An assumption that things will eventually get better is used to deflect the need to take active responsibility here and now.
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