This text was written for a course developed for the Open University by Ali Rattansi and James Donald on ‘Race, Culture and Society’ in the 1990’s. The course sought to bring to bear some of the new ‘post structuralist thinking about discourse, power and culture on issues of ethnicity and identity politics that were then dominated by essentialist and reductive concepts of who and what was ‘racist’ and this text develops this critique especially in relation to anti racist education.
Read the full text here: Racism Wot Dunnit