Building the anti-racist university by Jinheng Liu

Main Claim: Building the Anti-Racist University

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In all the university, positive measures are needed to address racism and break down white privilege. And transform these places into genuine anti-racism Spaces.

Works Cited

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Tate, Shirley Anne, and Paul Bagguley. Building the Anti-Racist University: Next Steps. Race Ethnicity and Education, 26 Dec. 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1260227.

Racism still exists

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Despite the implementation of equality and diversity policies, institutional racism remains entrenched in the university.

"Only 18 Black female full professors in the UK (THE, 2016)."

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Cited in the PDF (p. 5) as evidence of systemic underrepresentation in academia.

Indigenous and racialized faculty in Canada earn less than white colleagues.

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Cited in the PDF (pp. 2–3) to highlight income disparities

Colonial Curriculum and Knowledge Production

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Courses and education on racial discrimination still exist. These educational contents are easily influenced by political topics.

Student campaign ‘Why is my curriculum white?’ at UCL.

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Described in the PDF (p. 4) as a grassroots movement challenging Eurocentrism.

Birmingham City University’s marginalized Black Studies program.

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Critiqued in the PDF (p. 10) as a tokenistic response to curriculum reform.

Failure of Equality Policies

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Equality policy aims to eliminate inequalities in society and ensure that all groups have access to fair opportunities and treatment. However, although these policies have good intentions in theory, in the actual implementation process, there are often various problems, resulting in poor policy effect or even failure.

Canada’s hollow ‘employment equity’ policies.

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Criticized in the PDF (p. 3) as performative policy-making.

Brazil’s exclusionary quota system for postgraduate programs.

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Discussed in the PDF (p. 6) as incomplete institutional reform.

Con: "The student movement is radical and disruptive to the academic order."

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Critics claim:

"Campus protests interfere with teaching, create divisions and are not conducive to actual reform."

The student movement is a necessary catalyst for institutional change.

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Evidence:

The Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa forced the University of Cape Town to remove colonial symbols and initiate curriculum reforms (Carolissen & Bozalek, 2017).

UK "Why is my professor black?" The movement prompted universities to publicly commit to increasing the proportion of BME faculty (Tate & Bagguley, 2017).

Con: "Anti-racism is political correctness and has no real economic value."

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Critics claim:

"Universities should focus on technical education, and anti-racism is' not business as usual '.

Racial equality is the foundation of sustainable development and social stability.

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Evidence:

Research in the United States shows that the innovation efficiency of diverse teams is 35% higher than that of homogeneous teams (Adserias et al., 2017).