Introduction
To deliberate on issues of racial inequality in the higher education (HE) sector may seem foolhardy in the light of recent controversies around ‘wokery’ in universities across the United Kingdom (UK) and the introduction of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, placing … 
diversity
education is not the solution: racism and abuse of power in schools and universities
I remember the image of Professor H., a tall man, very clearly. Dressed in an expensive suit, tie, and patent-leather shoes, he often strutted up and down in the front of the auditorium, and instead of giving a scientific lecture, he bragged about whose hand he had just shaken in Berlin, London or …
woke
The word woke, with a long history in Black resistance movements in the United States, has come to international attention only because it has been weaponized by the right (“Woke”, 2023). Just as Critical Race Theory, an academic movement originating with legal scholars in the 1980s, has become the …