Critical Race Theory in England

Namita Chakrabarty is a tutor in Creative Writing at Ruskin College, Oxford, UK. Namita worked on both the creative and business sides of the entertainment industry before moving into teaching drama and then lecturing in higher education. Her creative practice involves recorded and live performance besides creative and critical writing, exploring themes of race, sexuality and culture. Recent writing is included in New Writing Dundee (2012) and in RIDE: the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (2011). Namita is co-convenor of the Critical Race Theory in the UK discussion group.John Preston is Professor of Education in the Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London, UK. He is the author of Whiteness and Class in Education (2007) and the co-editor of Intersectionality and Race in Education (2012, with Kalwant Bhopal). He has written and published widely on whiteness studies, education and disaster pedagogy.Lorna Roberts is a Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her research interests lie in the area of race, ethnicity and education, and she has been involved in several funded research projects. Lorna organized the first ever Critical Race Theory seminar in the UK, held at MMU and was instrumental in establishing the UK based Critical Race Theory discussion Group with colleagues Namita Chakrabarty and John Preston.

• 1. Introduction: Critical Race Theory in England Namita Chakrabarty, Lorna Roberts and John Preston 2. ‘A tradition in ceaseless motion’: Critical Race Theory and black British intellectual spaces Paul Warmington 3. Talk the talk, walk the walk: defining Critical Race Theory in research Kevin Hylton 4. Buried alive: the psychoanalysis of racial absence in preparedness/education Namita Chakrabarty 5. The invisibility of race: intersectional reflections on the liminal space of alterity Nicola Rollock 6. Rediscovering ‘Race Traitor’: towards a Critical Race Theory informed public pedagogy John Preston and Charlotte Chadderton 7. What’s the point? Anti-racism and students’ voices against Islamophobia Shirin Housee 8. ‘You got a pass, so what more do you want?’: race, class and gender intersections in the educational experiences of the Black middle class David Gillborn, Nicola Rollock, Carol Vincent and Stephen J. Ball