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Education & Development
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Why is it important for White people to talk about Whiteness? Rod Earle, a senior lecturer in youth justice, explores this in relation to racism and criminology…
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Education & Development
The Black History Month Talks
Explore the recorded presentations from The Open University's BME network's Black History Month event in October 2020.
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Society, Politics & Law
Is America better than this?
What will happen in America following the attack on the US Capitol building and the inauguration of Joe Biden as President? Sinead McEneaney explores this contentious issue...
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Education & Development
The awarding gap at The Open University
Racial inequality is becoming widely recognised as an issue in Higher Education. But what does the awarding gap look like at The Open University and what is being done to improve outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic students?
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History & The Arts
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
Keith Murrell, organiser of Cardiff’s iconic Butetown Carnival, explores its intricate past and bright future as a celebration of Butetown’s multicultural community, and addresses the injustices faced along the way.
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Money & Business
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
As part of Black History Month, Charles Barthold explores the connections between the management curriculum and coloniality.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
As part of Black History Month, June Barrow-Green and Brigitte Stenhouse gave a presentation in which they explored how historical sources can be used to decolonise the mathematics curriculum.
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History & The Arts
Rastafari in Israel
Hilde Capparella, PhD student in Religious Studies at The Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...
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History & The Arts
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
How have Santeria, Vodou or Rastafari become global religions? Hilde Capparella, a PhD research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article.
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History & The Arts
Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
Fake news is not a new phenomenon. Pauline Brown explores this concept in relation to the portrayal of black people as the inferior race in nineteenth-century newspapers.
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History & The Arts
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
It’s estimated that 25% of the Roma pre-war European population perished as a result of Nazi persecution. This article explores the anti-Roma prejudice that still goes on today, and what can be done to tackle it.
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History & The Arts
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
Robert Clive, a general of the East India Company, was despised by his contemporaries – so why was a statue of him erected outside the foreign office by the Edwardians years later?