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Introducing Union Black

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This free course, Introducing Union Black, aims to build your confidence as a change agent for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.

For some learners, this will be a journey into a little-known or misunderstood history and experiences of people racialised as non-white and, for many others, it will be an affirmation of being in the rightful place in our diverse twenty-first century. Whatever your background, the course will give you the opportunity to hear from contributors from a range of backgrounds, lived experiences, thoughts and voices, which are designed to help inform, inspire, challenge and enable you to take steps towards anti-racism.

Engaging in this course will contribute to building skills, including empathy, understanding anti-racism, understanding different cultures, diversity, inclusion and allyship.

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After studying this course, you should be able to:

develop an understanding of empathy and its value
understand identity and labels
explore the first steps to anti-racism.

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First Published: 31/10/2024

Updated: 31/10/2024

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Zeeshan Shamsher Aurangzeb 27 May 2025 5:37AM

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Course is full of cintents and informative

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Kevin McCarthy 21 May 2025 4:55PM

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A) Whilst fully understanding from the title of this course that the focus was indeed intended to be primarily on the treatment of those of African or Afro-Caribbean heritage, the discriminatory status of those of Asian and middle-Eastern/North African heritage still deserves coverage from the perspective of detrimental labelling today.

B) Readers might also be interested in 2 other OU course units:

1) "What can philosophy tell us about race" e.g. racial classifications purely by continents, (with Africans being universally being designated as 'LAZY'!); along with 'one drop of Black blood' makes you Black.

2) "International relations exploring territorial divisions", whereby international racial divisions are decided by white French, Russian and British Imperialists, e.g., leading to ongoing disputes in the Indian and Pakistan administered Kashmir.

C) The 'Police Oracle' web site has a limited free service, some may also have a full registration. The following article may be of interest:
"Race action plan gets new direction with all chiefs sign up and NBPA back on board", 07/01/2025
"Police chiefs have agreed the focus of the Police Race Action Plan team for next year as Black Police Association 're-engages' with the process."

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