Understanding Institutional Racism

Marc Verlot is the Managing Director of the British Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The Culture of White Anti-Racism

Emma Kowal is an Australian cultural and medical anthropologist, physician and scholar of science and technology studies. She is currently the ARC Future Fellow at Deakin University.

Race, Antiracism, and the Place of Blackness in the Making and Remaking of the English Working Class

Caroline Bressey was born and grew up in London. In 1997 she graduated from the University of Cambridge with BA Honours in Geography. In 1998 she joined the UCL Geography department as postgraduate student and was awarded her PhD Forgotten Geographies: Historical Geographies of Black Women in Victorian and Edwardian London in 2003. Between 2003 and 2007 Caroline continued to research the Black Presence in Victorian Britain and the role of the anti-racist community as an ESRC postdoctoral student and research fellow. In 2007 she became a lecturer in human geography and founded the Equiano Centre to support research into the Black Presence in Britain. In 2009 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Racism as Public Policy in America's Cities in the Twentieth Century

Ronald H. Bayor is Professor Emeritus of History at Georgia Tech. He has recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Latest publications include Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America; and (ed) The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity.

School-Imposed Labeling and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

L. Trenton S. Marsh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Learning Sciences and Educational Research department and a program liaison for the Public Affairs’ Ph.D. program at the University of Central Florida. Centering on equity and diversity, his research arch has intersecting commitments: (1) understanding the experiences of minoritized students and families within various settings; (2) engaging the multivocality of youth/students, families, and communities; and (3) informing practices and micro-level policies within relationship-centered and social justice-oriented settings. Marsh uses qualitative inquiry as well as participatory research designs in the service of lifting and unearthing the insight of participants, as well as co-constructing the object of knowledge with stakeholders who may have been historically ignored. Email: L.TrentonMarsh@ucf.edu. ORCID: 0000-0002-2769-4167.

Racism and Intercultural Issues in Urban Europe

Jagdish Gundara was a commentator on the theory and practice of education for diversity. He was Unesco professor of intercultural studies and teacher education, and emeritus professor of the Institute of Education, University College London. He was, from its inception in 1979, director of the centre for intercultural education at the Institute of Education.

Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era

Ritty Lukose is Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. Her teaching and research interests explore the relations between culture, politics, and economy as they manifest themselves in discourses and practices of gender across the varied terrain of globalization, especially as they impact contemporary South Asia. With a background in anthropology, she is currently interested in the relationship between Western, global and non-Western feminisms. Professor Lukose's research has been funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Program, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education, and she has published several book chapters and articles on this research in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis, and Anthropology, and Education Quarterly. Her book, Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India, was published by Duke University Press in 2009 and co-published in India by Orient Blackswan in 2010. A co-edited book, South Asian Feminisms was published by Duke University Press (2012) and Zubaan, a leading feminist press in India. She teaches courses on globalization, India/South Asia, sex/gender and feminisms within global contexts, and ethnography.

Philanthropy, Education, and Race Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa

Obed Mfum-Mensah is Professor of Sociology of Education at Messiah University at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. His research includes postcolonial analysis of education policy and knowledge transfer in Sub-Saharan Africa, education of marginalized groups, curriculum theorizing, and alternative forms of schooling in the developing world.

Target Practice: The Algorithmics and Biopolitics of Race in Emerging Smart Border Practices and Technologies

Tamara Vukov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at l'Université de Montréal, and teaches in the bidisciplinary program in Political Communication jointly administered by the Departments of Communication and Political Science at l'U de M. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Visiting Research Professor and a SSHRC postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University, and was a FQRSC postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University from 2008-2010.

The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives

Frank Dikötter is a historian and writer, specialising in the study of modern China. Frank has published a dozen books that have changed the way we view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992) to China before Mao: The Age of Openness (2007). He is best known as the author of the People’s Trilogy, a series of books that document the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people on the basis of unprecedented access to archival material in China. The first volume, entitled Mao’s Great Famine, won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Britain’s most prestigious book award for non-fiction. The second instalment, The Tragedy of Liberation, was short-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2014. The Cultural Revolution concludes the trilogy and was short-listed for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2017.

“Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter

Jeffrey A. Harris is an independent historic preservation consultant and historian in Hampton, Virginia.

“Linda Morenita”: Skin Colour, Beauty and the Politics of Mestizaje in Mexico

Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa (Guadalajara, 1971) is a Black-mestiza woman, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College at the University of Cambridge. She co-leads the Decolonise Sociology Working Group and with Dr Ella McPherson she runs the ‘End Everyday Racism’ project, a web-based platform to report and monitor racism in higher education. From 2017-2021 she was the University Race Equality Co-Champion at Cambridge. Her research focusses on the intersectional lived experience of ‘race’ and racism in Mexico and Latin America; antiracism and academic activism; feminist theory and the interconnections between beauty, emotions and racism. Monica is an award-winning teacher and pioneering advocate of education as a form of social change. She has lectured at Newcastle, Princeton and Nottingham Universities, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck College, and El Colegio de Mexico. Monica's latest research projects, are: a project on blackness, representation and women’s economic trajectories in the Costa Chica in Mexico; a British Academy funded project on Institutional Racism in Oaxaca, Mexico and, she recently completed a large ESRC funded research project, Latin American Anti-racism in a Post-Racial Age, LAPORA, for which she was the PI, on antiracist practices and discourses in Latin America comparing experiences in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. She has been Chair of the Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous People’s section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Since 2010 she co-leads an organisation, the Collective for the Elimination of Racism in Mexico, COPERA, dedicated to making of racism a public issue.

Contradictions of Solidarity: Whiteness, Settler Coloniality, and the Mainstream Environmental Movement

Joe Curnow is Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Education. Her work focuses on learning, antiracism, and decolonization in social movements, includ-ing the fossil fuel divestment campaign and the fair trade campaign. She previously served as the National Coordinator for United Students for Fair Trade and worked as an anti-oppression educator for international student campaigns. Her doctoral work was supported the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Email: joe.curnow@mail.umanitoba.ca

Anjali Helferty is a PhD candidate in Adult Education and Community Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She worked in a variety of leadership positions in the youth climate change movement in the United States and Canada. Her doctoral work is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship. Email: anjali.helferty@mail.utoronto.ca

A Member of the Club? How Black Jews Negotiate Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism

Bruce Haynes was born in Harlem, New York. After receiving his B.A. in Sociology from Manhattanville College, Haynes conducted applied research, under sociologist and jury expert Jay Schulman, selecting juries for trials throughout New York State. From there he went on to earn his doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York (1995) and was appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Yale University in 1995. In 2001, Haynes joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where he now serves as Professor of Sociology. In addition, Haynes is a Senior Fellow in the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale University.

Black Solidarity: A Philosophical Defense

Mabogo P. More is a South African philosopher working in the area of Black existentialism, including philosophical analysis of the life and work of Steve Biko. In 2015, More was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.