Resources
To achieve our collective mission of an education sector that is reflective of society, we’ve gathered a range of useful resources and reading for our network. If you’d like to recommend any content to be added to these pages, please get in touch with us

Book
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
Benjamin Zephaniah Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the

Audio
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Reni Eddo-Lodge in Conversation
Hear Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talk to Reni Eddo-Lodge about today’s most pressing cultural issues. “There’s a sense that, when being asked to talk about race,

Book
Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy
Olivia N. Perlow (Editor), Durene I. Wheeler (Editor), Sharon L. Bethea (Editor), BarBara M. Scott (Editor) This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on the frameworks and lived experiences of Black women educators. Contributors

Book
Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race
Dr Pragya Agarwal A thoughtful, prescient read for any mother or father parenting through the unique challenges of this racially polarised year, decade and beyond’

Article
‘Is she Somali?’
Baar Hersi This is the question I repeatedly hear in my first term in a new school. I hear it in the corridors, I hear

Article
How The DfE’s New Guidelines Impact The Future Of Liberatory Teaching
Cairo Clarke, The Black Curriculum On the 24th September 2020, the Department for Education shared new guidance for PSHE programming which has left us extremely

Book
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Bell Hooks “When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news,” writes bell hooks. “If the topic gets specific

Article
Hidden Histories: Scotland, Slavery and Joseph Knight
The anti-racist educator In Scotland we don’t learn much about our history as a slave trading nation. What most Scots remember from what we learned

Audio
Travellers
There are many communities of travelling people in Britain and there have been for generations. While most people accept their lifestyles, some in the settled

Article
What Inclusive Leaders Sound Like
Noah Zandan and Lisa Shalett When leaders commit to building an inclusive organization, they tend to start with the company mission, vision, values, and a promise to

Article
No More Exclusions
An Abolitionist Coalition Grassroots Movement in Education Click to read more

Article
When legal representation falls short: study finds diversity is lacking in law firms
Can We Overcome Racism Until the Justice System is Representative? Ysabelle Devereux Only 29% of partner roles in large firms are held by women, despite

Book
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the

Video
Michaela Coel, James MacTaggart Lecture, Edinburgh TV Festival 2018
“I am overjoyed to accept this invitation; it seems in some way a celebration of the rapidly changing world we live in. But with the

Video
The psychosis of whiteness
The Psychosis of Whiteness is a documentary film that sheds light on society’s perceptions of race and racism by exploring cinematic representations of the slave trade.

Article
My hopes for diversity in the education profession
Governing Matters The term diversity means something which signifies a range of different things, an assortment, a mixture etc. When we speak of diversity, we

Article
3 practical steps to fight racial injustice in schools
TES The job of tackling racial inequality in schools should not fall on the shoulders of BAME teachers, writes Dennis Simms. Click to read more

Resource
Diversity in the boardroom
Diversity in the boardroom. A booklet from Deloitte exploring practical steps that a company can take. Click to read the booklet

Audio
John Amaechi talks race, breaking the NBA, and homosexuality in sport podcast episode
Few British psychologists can also boast a successful career in the NBA, but John Amaechi can. In this enthralling and thoughtful interview with James O’Brien,

Article
Prejudiced thoughts run through all our minds — the key is what we do with them
Steven Hayes We tend to think of prejudice as something that other people, particularly bad people, have in their hearts and minds. The truth is,

Book
Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain
Trevor Phillips Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants from

Resource
How to create an anti-racist school setting
A PDF resource with reflective action steps from Shereen Chung-Blake and Sarah Carrington Click to explore the resource

Audio
Black Lives Matter: The Story of a Slogan
Mukul Devichand and Mike Wendling travel around the United States, talking to Black Lives Matter activists, the parents of young black men shot by police,

Book
Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
Jason Arday, Heidi Safia Mirza This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students

Article
Beyond The Statements: Doing the Work To Create More Anti-Racist School Districts
Crawling out of the classroom It seems that every time we white folks suddenly wake up to the racism and white supremacy that has been

Article
Is the UK racist and if so, what do we do about it?
Daniel Stone George Floyd: On May 25, a 46-year old black man was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for 526 seconds.

Book
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity … A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and

Research
Reflecting Realities 2019 – Survey of Ethnic Diversity in UK Children’s Books
CLPE We released our third Arts Council funded Reflecting Realities report in autumn 2020. The Reflecting Realities: Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature 2019 shows that there

Audio
I Can’t Be Racist
Social psychologist Dr Keon West explores racial bias, and the concepts of both conscious and unconscious bias, drawing on the latest psychological and sociological research.

Audio
Talking Diversity
Want to get more diversity into your classrooms? Join the Three C’s – Charlotte, Carly and Cindy as they talk about their lives, work, and

Article
Anti-racism in education: 2020 summer round-up
Mixed up in Classics Schools and universities in the UK have, by now, all reached the end of the academic year, and have a little

Article
How to find the right trustee role
Eleanor Urben Taking on a charity trusteeship is a rewarding and beneficial way to volunteer your time. You will have the chance to support and

Resource
Resources for Governors
Karl George Karl has interviewed a number of high profile people who have experience of sitting on boards or leading organisations. You can view some

Book
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge ‘Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power.’ We can’t afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak’The

Article
Improving representation on boards
Iesha Small Earlier this year, a friend asked my views on how charities could improve Black representation on boards (at executive, advisory and junior advisory

Audio
The shocking truth of racism in British schools
When a teenage activist sent a callout on social media for examples of racism within schools, he was deluged with responses. Aditya Chakrabortty began to

Article
Archiving Britain’s Black Communities
We Transfer There’s no limit to our culture. Before the internet, family photo albums brought out on special occasions would hold the memories of Britain’s

Book
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
Dani McClain A longtime reporter on race, reproductive justice, policy and politics, Dani McClain is now also the mother of a baby girl. Like all

Audio
EWB Podcast
A place for Black educators to share their stories in a ‘virtual staff room’, created and run intentionally by a Black Educator. Adding diverse voices

Article
Tales of my Father: a story of immigration, racism and success
Professor Vini Lander My father, Hari Singh Sewak, died at 9.30am on Monday 24th February 2020. I am writing this four months later on 5th

Research
The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s Ethnic Minorities
Simon Burgess et al. We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linked test score records to document the evolution of

Article
BAMEed Network Conference 2018: Habits of Highly Effective People
Penny Rabiger When we were setting the agenda and theme for this year’s BAMEed Network annual conference, I have to admit that the idea of

Article
Stop Talking White Man – Interrupting Patterns of Participation in School Staff Meetings
Joe Truss You want to disrupt patriarchy and white supremacy in the curriculum and in our learning outcomes. But, these patterns of oppression start in our adult interactions, and boy does

Resource
#BlackLivesMatter Protocols
Citizen School This is in no way a perfect document. Rather, it is a starting point aiming to get school communities engaged in dialogic practices

Video
Why is my curriculum white?
In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, ’42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity,

Article
Deeds, not words
Nick Dennis The events of the last few weeks have led to the largest public outpouring of anti-racism that I can recall. I’ve received a

Video
How have schools failed black boys?
In this video, Dr Muna Abdi speaks with young men and provides a platform for them to share their narratives and encourage change so that

Article
Absent from the curriculum
Nick Dennis On the 4th December 2018, I was invited to take part in a panel discussion hosted by the Runnymede Trust and the Institute of Historical Research about Black and

Research
Race, empire and education: teaching racism
Marika Sherwood Quite clearly, virulent anti-Black racism (racial stereotyping, prejudiceand discrimination) had its origins in Europe with the trade in enslavedAfricans. But there is evidence

Book
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands
Stuart Hall Stuart Hall’s story is the story of an age’ Owen Jones ‘Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial’This is the story, in

Audio
Community & Mobilisation Podcast Episode
In this podcast we will be exploring the importance of community mobilisation in relation to making positive and impactful change to the way Black and

Resource
Introduction to Black Studies Course
Introduction to Black Studies Course is a 30 week beginner’s course that analyses all the major areas of the Black Experience – the History, the Politics,

Book
Who am I, again?
Lenny Henry In his long-awaited autobiography, Sir Lenny Henry tells the extraordinary story of his early years and sudden rise to fame. Born soon after

Audio
White Ally Podcast Episode
Picking up from the last episode on BAME leadership (which you should listen to first) we’re talking about what it means to be a ally

Book
The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes
Elijah Lawal Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down. ___________In order

Article
Anti-Racism and Allyship. Privilege and paralysis.
Tom Sherrington The #BlackLivesMatter protests of the last two weeks, catalysed by George Floyd’s death, have been accompanied by a wave of powerful messages I

Book
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain
Clair Wells From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or

Article
Why you need safe spaces to tackle racism
Alim Dhanji, Adidas These past few months have proven to be challenging for everyone. The Black Lives Matter Movement has touched us all, be it

Research
Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools
Runnymede This report is concerned with race and racism in England’s secondary schools. Drawing upon the perspectives of secondary school teachers acrossGreater Manchester, the report

Video
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Historian David Olusoga explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Africa. Explore the episodes

Research
Diversity Matters
A paper from McKinsey and Company exploring the relationship between the level of diversity in an organisation and its performance. Research and practical strategies are

BAMEed Resources
Schools and COVID-19 – Word document
Access an editable version of our guidance for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff and their employers in school settings including an editable template

Book
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Afua Hirsch You’re British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking

Research
Pointless Diversity Training: Unconscious Bias, New Racism and Agency
Mike Noon The latest fashion of ‘unconscious bias training’ is a diversity intervention based on unproven suppositions and is unlikely to help eliminate racism in

Book
The emperor has no clothes: Teaching about race and racism to people who don’t want to know
Tema Okun A volume in educational leadership for social justice. Read the book

Article
The fight to redefine racism
Kelefa Sanneh Sixteen years ago, in 2003, the student newspaper at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, a historically black institution in Tallahassee, published a lively

Article
Structural racism in education: lessons from Bristol’s past
This article from Councillor Ruth Pickersgill for BAMEed Bristol and South West explores what we can learn about structural racism in education from Bristol’s past.

Audio
Pod for the Cause
“Pod for the Cause” expands the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate &

Video
10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You
If you, like many of us, are finding it hard to articulate how to discuss issues of racism, injustice, discrimination and privilege, we’d like to

Audio
The language of power and inequality in education and leadership
Teacher and writer Jeffrey Boakye, sitting in for Michael Rosen, talks with charity strategist, writer and educator Iesha Small. They explore the language of power

Video
David Olusoga, James MacTaggart Lecture, Edinburgh TV Festival 2020
A regular face on our screens as presenter of shows such as A House Through Time, Black and British: A Forgotten History and the BAFTA

Article
We all need to learn to lift
Unknown author I rarely write about my personal life. I guess I worry that my words will be misunderstood or misinterpreted and so cause unintentional

Research
A Good Practice Guide for improving outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children in education
The Traveller Movement This report outlines good practice in the education of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) school children. It interviews schools, provides case studies,

Research
The Swann Report: Education for All
Swann (1985) In its 1977 report on The West Indian Community, the Commons Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration had highlighted widespread concerns about the

Article
Stop Sanitizing the Mayflower Story
Mayflower Myths The Mayflower journey was part of Early English Colonialism which involved The invasion of Virginia, New England and the Caribbean and land seizure

Video
Why Representation Really Matters, Aisha Thomas
“Until society represents everyone, the question will always be ‘where do I belong?’ ” Aisha Thomas’s TEDx talk challenges us to imagine a world where

Resource
Race Reflections
Guilaine Kinouani Rethinking inequality, injustice and oppression. DISRUPTIVE articles and think pieces. It is Race Reflections’ contents which propelled her to thought leadership when it

Audio
In Conversations with…Professor Paul Miller
In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson interviews Professor Paul Miller, the President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration

Article
Why our schools need an anti-racist curriculum
University of Birmingham The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA on 25th May 2020 sparked the Black Lives Matters movement that has shone a

Article
BLM: Anti-racism a whole school approach
Hannah Wilson The Issue: It is complex. Who owns the voice? The Conversation: Chiltern using their platform and their network. Modelling how to take responsibility and

Article
The Inner Work That Makes Cross-Racial Conversations Easier
Mary Frances-Winters This blog post has been adapted from Chapter Three of our book, Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences, by Mary-Frances Winters. It

Audio
Woman’s Hour: Children and racism, BAME NHS staff, Ocean Autopsy
The US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody. George Floyd, 46, died after being arrested

Article
UK schools ‘should be taught about black history’
Metro An education campaign has been launched calling on the government to make British black history compulsory in the UK’s national school curriculum. Social enterprise

Article
The False Promise of Anti-racism Books
Saida Grundy In today’s cultural moment—during which hundreds of mainstream institutions in the U.S. are acknowledging systemic racism—books and other content about race and discrimination

Audio
On The Road
On The Road is a podcast for Gyspy, Roma and Traveller communities which will also be broadcast in prisons across the UK on National Prison

Audio
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
From the author behind the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (http://renieddolodge.co.uk/books/) comes a podcast that takes the conversation a

Audio
Race and Cyberspace: A new space for racism? With Rachel Boyle and Jessie Daniels
In our series finale, Dr Daniel Kilvington talks with Rachel Boyle and Professor Jessie Daniels about ‘race’ and racism on the internet. We’ll explore the

Audio
Pod Save the People
Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from Sam Sinyangwe, Kaya Henderson, and De’Ara Balenger. Then he sits

Book
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis
Pnina Werbner This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South

Video
Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin Di Angelo
Dr. Robin DiAngelo is the author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy and has been an anti-racist educator, and

Article
For Black History to be more than a bullet point, teachers need government support and proper training
Micha Frazer-Carroll The subject of Black History in the curriculum has been much discussed over recent months – and yet the principles still appear abstract

Resource
‘How to be Antiracist’ for educators
An interactive Padlet wall filled with resources. Click to explore the resource

Research
Race in the workplace
The McGregor-Smith Review Every person, regardless of their athnicity or background, should beable to fulfil their potential at work. That is the business case as

Audio
Akala: race and class in the ruins of empire podcast episode
Rapper, poet and scholar Akala joins James O’Brien for a scintillating interview, in which they discuss two issues that run to the heart of modern

Research
A test for racial discrimination in recruitment practice in British cities
Martin Wood, Jon Hales, Susan Purdon, Tanja Sejersen and Oliver Hayllar This report shows the findings from a field experiment that involved submitting matched job

Audio
Educating While Black Podcast
Educating While Black is a podcast that discusses topics and solutions for the education and edification of Blackness. Discover more episodes

Article
Black people are more than racism
Iesha Small Why I keep saying no when I’m repeatedly asked to write, speak and train about racism. This year I have written 9 blog

Audio
BAME Educators and Covid-19
In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Teacher Education SIG Convenor Lizana Oberholzer interviews Allana Gay, the founder of the BAMEeD Network. Allana co-founded BAMEed

Book
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Peter Fryer Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following

Book
Racism and Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
David Gillborn Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable levels. This is the inescapable conclusion of the

Article
Brexit, Empire, and Decolonization
Gurminder K. Bhambra Much of the debate around the referendum on continuing membership of the European Union was about ‘reclaiming our national sovereignty’. However, Britain

Article
When and Why Diversity Improves Your Board’s Performance
Harvard Business Review Board diversity matters but concentrating on only one form of diversity isn’t enough. Our interviewees suggested that social diversity (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity,

Research
Overseas trained teachers (OTTs) in England: Surviving or thriving?
Professor Paul Miller The recruitment of overseas trained teachers (OTTs) in England has seemingly disappeared from the policy radar despite their large numbers, continuing impact

Article
Families Not Engaging With School? Rethink the Problem
Laura Brady, Stephanie Fryberg, Hazel Rose Markus, Camilla Griffiths, Jenny Yang & Perla Rodriguez The coronavirus pandemic has allowed a long-standing educational myth to take on new force. Educators often claim

Book
Diversify
June Sarpong The truth is, INCLUSION is better for EVERYONE. In this empowering call to arms, June Sarpong MBE proves why. Putting the spotlight on

Article
Addressing equality and diversity collaboratively in schools
Reah Banton I don’t want to be positioned as the angry Black girl in the corner, who when she tells her truth is isolated, unheard

Article
Doing the work
Nick Dennis I’ve had a variety of conversations with teachers and schools over the last few weeks about history teaching in independent schools and the

Book
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Margaret Busby Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology Daughters of Africa illuminated the ‘silent, forgotten, underrated voices of black women’ (The Washington Post). Published

Article
No One Should Have to Ignore Their Grief, Yet It’s Long Been Expected of People of Colour
Nadia Owusu Despite living in New York—the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in the US—much of my weekday morning routine is the same as it

BAMEed Resources
Schools and COVID-19 – PDF document
Access guidance for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff and their employers in school settings. This document is informed by NHS guidance and contains

Resource
Speculative Worlds of Colour
Jewel Davis Highlighting common tropes, stereotypes, and biases found in speculative fiction and media. Click to view

Video
Diverse recruitment onto The Difference programme
A video presentation from Kiran Gill about diverse recruitment: getting it wrong and putting it right.

Audio
Code Switch: Race in your face
Remember when folks used to talk about being “post-racial”? Well, we’re definitely not that. We’re a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping

Article
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”. Through work

Audio
The death of George Floyd – will anything change?
Protests ignited across the world after footage showed George Floyd dying under the knee of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Paul Butler discusses the

Book
Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the

Research
Teaching the Teachers: Dismantling Racism and Teaching for Social Change
Elsa Cantu´Ruiz, Norma E. Cantu As a response to the attacks on ethnic studies in Arizona and the move toban certain books, this essay presents

Article
Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint
Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Snyder U.S. colleges and universities will be embracing diversity training with renewed vigor this fall. In response to the killing of George

Article
‘Welcome and important’: academics on decolonising education
The Guardian The debate sparked by a group of undergraduates at the University of Cambridge, on how and whether to “decolonise” British tertiary education by incorporating more

Audio
The British Empire’s Legacy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Britain’s colonial legacy. The 18th, 19th and early part of the 20th centuries were times of colonial conquest for this

Audio
Come Through with Rebecca Carroll Podcast
Come Through with Rebecca Carroll is a podcast that explores culture, race and identity against the backdrop of the 2020 election. The series will provide

Resource
Find a book – map search
Use the map search to find books written by authors from or set in your chosen country – ideal for reading around a theme or

Audio
Afua Hirsch with David Olusoga
Guardian Columnist and author Afua Hirsch joins historian and broadcaster David Olusoga in the Penguin studio. Afua talks about her bestselling book ‘BRIT (ish)’ which

Resource
The things they didn’t teach us
Manchester Museum We want to raise awareness of rarely told and overlooked histories. Explore some of the projects and exhibitions that help shed light on

Research
Race Discrimination, the Politics of Knowledge and Cultural Inequality in England
Professor Paul Miller From the outside, one might assume England’s education system is tolerant of diversity, welcoming, and pluralistic. The truth is, to some extent

Audio
Identity Politics Podcast
Identity Politics is a podcast that features new stories and perspectives about race, gender and Muslim life in America. From pop culture to politics, each

Audio
The Native Immigrants Podcast
A weekly podcast about the life of a married couple in London by a married couple in London. Focusing on topics and issues within the

Article
Head of Diversity and Inclusion? No, thanks
Iesha Small Head of Diversity and Inclusion is an important role. It’s a role for many people who are serious about societal change. It’s also

Book
What If?: Short Stories to Spark Inclusion and Diversity
Steve Robbins From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L. Robbins, comes the 10th Anniversary Edition of his classic book used by

Article
Why is teacher assessment biased?
Daisy Christodoulou In my last post, I spoke about how disadvantaged pupils do better on tests than on teacher assessments – and also about how many

Research
Anti-racist school leadership: making ‘race’ count in leadership preparation and development
Professor Paul Miller School leaders in England have a huge task to mediate factors in a school’s environment (regulatory/legal and institutional). Rapid and sometimes conflicting

Article
Talking about racism in schools
Nick Dennis Being anti-racist is not some grand project to reform society or schools, but is rooted in the idea of citizenship with all the

Book
The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
Lavelle Porter The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fiction produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as

Article
Inclusive Allyship
Yamina Bibi Whenever I want to go ‘out out’, I think about my outfit, which colour scarf will match the outfit and the perfect handbag

Article
White Privilege
Charlotte Belmore The area of ‘white privilege’ is the uncomfortable elephant in the room that is not going away anytime soon. The idea of racism

Article
Why so many organisations stay white
Harvard Business Review – Victor Ray Organizations are not race neutral. Scholars, managers, journalists, and many others routinely recognize “black capitalism,” “black banks,” and “ethnic

Audio
Say Your Mind Podcast
Kelechi Okafor is the host of Say Your Mind. Tune in every Monday for her unique and hilarious take on Tarot, current events and pop

Data
46% of all schools in England have no BAME teachers
UCL A new study by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) finds that 46% of all schools in England have no Black, Asian and minority ethnic

Book
Promoting Inclusion and Diversity in Early Years Settings
Chandrika Devarakonda A Professional Guide to Ethnicity, Religion, Culture and Language This guide provides insights, case studies and resources to enable anyone working in early

Book
Every Muslim Child Matters: Practical Guidance for Schools and Children’s Services
Maurice Irfan Coles Issues surrounding Islam have the potential to divide society but also to be a positive unifying force. How best can we respond

Research
School segregation in multi-ethnic England
Simon Burgess et al. Aspects of both educational development and multi-cultural inter-relationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools

Article
Intolerance towards ethnic minorities and the power of stories
Aima Ahmed The kind of stories we need to be telling are those of tolerance. Stories that don’t attach bad connotations to the word ‘migrant’.

Book
Diversity and Inclusion in Early Childhood
Chandrika Devarakonda Covering a wide range of concepts and taking a broader perspective of what inclusion entail, this book offers an overview of current research,

Resource
Old Anthropology Library
The Old Anthropology Library (and its website) serves as a key space for intellectual debate, a place to showcase diverse departmental research in the critical

Article
The Absence of Diversity in the Literature Curriculum – and its Lasting Impact
Anjum Peerbacos Riz Ahmed made a powerful speech regarding diversity in the Arts. He stated that if young people could not see themselves as part

Book
Racism and Education: Structures and Strategies
Dawn Gill, Barbara Mayor, Maud Blair, Dr Maud Blair This broad-ranging text offers a timely overview of both the social basis of racism in education, and the policies

Audio
Activism takes action podcast episode
In this episode, we speak with Chantelle Clarke -Head of Department at Frederick Bremer School, Waltham Forest. We talked about how recent events have led

Book
Critical Race Theory: an Introduction
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and

Resource
Anti-racist resources for teachers
Becoming a more confident and skilled anti-racist educator generally involves starting with educating yourself! These resources will support you to learn about the historical roots

Research
BERA – race, ethnicity and education
BERA – race, ethnicity and education provide a forum for researchers of ‘race’, ethnicity and education, host seminars, publish papers and support and facilitate the development

Article
How can BAME leaders break through the “concrete ceiling”?
A summary of a presentation by Christine Callender compiled by NAHT. Click to read the article

Article
Should I lead, facilitate, or get out of the way?
Shana White Expert is a term often thrown around in variety of professional circles. In education and edutwitter world “expert” implies a variety of things

Resource
Anti-racism resources
Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work.

Book
Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service
Melissa Benn It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one of the

Research
Black Male Teachers, White Education Spaces: Troubling School Practices of Othering and Surveillance
The absence of male teachers in primary schools has been an ongoing concern for policymakers and schools in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, and

Article
Welsh black history lessons backed by Race Council Cymru chair
Teaching black history to Welsh pupils would “go a long way in helping to overcome racism”, the chairman of Race Council Cymru has said. A petition

Research
The experience of BME academics in higher education: aspirations in the face of inequality
Dr Kalwant Bhopal There have been some significant advances in achieving race equality inhigher education in the UK since the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000.

Article
‘Wow, I’m racist’: In time of viral encounters, ‘white spaces’ are used to confront biases
Erik Ortiz Nicole O’Connor, a nurse practitioner in St. Louis, was selling her dining room table on Facebook when a prospective buyer — a black

Article
My reflections on 2019 BAMEed conference
Yamina Bibi I’ve been following BAMEed on Twitter for a while now. I have ‘liked’ and retweeted their tweets but this was my first time

Article
Black female professors must deal with bullying to win promotion, report finds
The Guardian Those surveyed said they were systematically overlooked for promotion and mistaken for clerical staff. Click to read more

Article
We must change how black history is taught in UK schools
Evening Standard Last week, I saw more engagement in learning about black history than I’ve witnessed in my whole career as a teacher. The killing

Article
Diversity – ensuring the most talented profession we can for the sake of the children whom we teach
J Gray I was delighted to be asked to contribute a post for the launch of BAMEed. If we wish for the best teaching profession

Book
Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain
Sally Tomlinson How successful has Britain been in accommodating racial, religious and cultural diversity in the education system? Have there been contradictory policies that have

Video
Angela Davis in conversation
Angela Davis, the writer, scholar, teacher and activist/organiser, is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era. She talked about women, race

Book
Who do We Think We Are?: Imagining the New Britain
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown To answer the question which is the title of this book, the author casts her critical gaze at the media, the education system

Article
Diversity in the curriculum: teaching and learning with human stories
Lyfta We know that asking someone where they’re from can come from curiosity but can often serve to make people feel alienated, because it can

Article
Towards an anti-racist curriculum: Step 2. “Usualise diversity”
Tom Sherrington Since posting Step 1, the debate regarding responses to the BLM protests has continued. There’s been a lot of activity and exchanges of

Resource
Interactive Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Calendar 2021
Dual Frequency We know how hard it is to plan your equality, diversity and inclusion events around an already busy timetable. So we thought we

Book
The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices
Edited by Ian Gilbert One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves

Book
Don’t Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri From women’s solidarity and friendship to forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian’s braids, the scope of black hairstyling ranges

Article
Race diversity on boards: our commitments to action
Emma Knights, Chief Executive at National Governance Association Two years ago the National Governance Association launched the Everyone-on-Board campaign at our summer conference in 2018 with the

Video
Decolonising Education: Let’s talk about it!
Open and honest conversations with those doing decolonising work. View the channel

Research
The diversity trap?
Derron Wallace Critical explorations of black male teachers’ negotiations of leadership and learning in London state schools Read the paper

Video
Young, British & Black: three voices behind the UK’s anti-racism protests
From cities to towns, at the heart of the recent anti-racism protests in Britain there has been a new generation declaring in their thousands that

Article
Black Lives Matter: Then, Now & Always
Wayne Reid The murder of George Floyd is the latest in a long line of atrocities and brutalities endured by the global Black community. This

Article
White Allies MUST be Antiracist too
An educational nomad I have been thinking alot lately about the nature of the work I do. The training I offer centres on anti-racist and

Research
The power of stereotyping and confirmation bias to overwhelm accurate assessment
Julie Nelson Behavioral research has revealed how normal human cognitive processes can tend to lead us astray. But do these affect economic researchers, ourselves? This

Research
New CSI research reveals high levels of job discrimination faced by ethnic minorities in Britain
New research by CSI and colleagues at the GEMM project has revealed shocking levels of discrimination against job applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds. We made fictitious applications to

Article
My white friend asked me to explain white privilege, so I decided to be honest.
Lori Lakin Hutcherson He wanted to know how institutional racism has made an impact on my life. I’m glad he asked, because I was ready

Book
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
Jesmyn Ward A timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America. In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward

Video
1500 and counting
‘1500 & Counting’ is a documentary film investigating deaths in custody and police brutality in the UK, released in May 2019. On Sunday 3rd May 2015,

Research
Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond
BERA blog series: multiple authors This special series of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK

Audio
How the Bristol bus boycott changed UK civil rights
Marvin Rees, the mayor of Bristol, discusses the 1963 Bristol bus boycott – a protest that proved to be a watershed moment in the UK’s

Article
The psychology of being a better ally in the office – and beyond
Andre Spicer In recent interviews, the American soccer player Crystal Dunn expressed the joy and fear she felt when her teammate Megan Rapinoe decided to take a

Book
Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work: European Countries’ Perspectives
Joana Vassilopoulou, Julienne Brabet, Victoria Showunmi Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work analyses perspectives from nine countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland,

Video
What happens when I try to talk race with white people
You can choose not to see the sky, but it exists. That’s how Renni Eddo-Lodge responds when somebody tells her they don’t see race. Trying

Book
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom – award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower

Book
Whiteness: An Introduction
Steve Garner What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness,

Research
BME academic flight from UK to overseas higher education: aspects of marginalisation and exclusion
Kalwant Bhopal et al. This paper describes the experiences of BME academics who consider moving overseas for career opportunities. It explores the barriers that BME

Research
‘White sanction’, institutional, group and individual interaction in the promotion and progression of black and minority ethnic academics and teachers in England
Professor Paul Miller The promotion and progression of black and minority ethnic academics and teachers in England has been the subject of much debate. Although

Book
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Damian Le Bas ‘I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I

Book
Eagles Who Soar: How Black Learners Find the Path to Success
Jasmine Rhamie Statistics confirm a general picture in which African Caribbean pupils’ attainment in examinations is disproportionately low and their exclusion rates and statements of

Audio
Race in Education with Kauser Jan and Daniel Kebede
In this episode of Talking Race, Professor Vini Lander speaks with Kauser Jan, a primary teacher in Leeds, and Daniel Kebede, Vice President of the

Research
Educational Digest International
Under the theme of diversity in schools, we are presenting EDDi as a journal. We have contributions from Viv Grant (UK), Sapphira Beaudin (Thailand), Angeline Aow

Resource
Positive stories from diverse groups
Dual Frequency We create publications and teaching resources showcasing positive stories from diverse communities. Click to explore the resource

Audio
The dangers of whitewashing black history
Equipped with the real story of Rosa Parks, professor David Ikard highlights how making the realities of race more benign and digestible harms us all

Resource
Using your Voice
HLT Wellbeing Support for talking to children about racism, tolerance, self respect, black history and current events . “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression