How Do Diversity Trainers and Consultants Embody Antiracism

Constructions of Antiracism in the United Kingdom

Bibliographic Data

ID9952120
AuthorsSofia Hamaz (a UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN), Young Muslims Citizenship Project, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume38
Issue2
Pages30-42
Publication date2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7659 • E-ISSN: 1557-9336
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2753/ijs0020-7659380202
OpenAlexW2019626541
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited5

This article draws on recent research to explore the changing nature of antiracism in the United Kingdom. Starting from a historical contextualization of the specific resistance that antiracism training has met, it seeks to show how antiracist diversity trainers and consultants negotiate these continuing tensions today. In the course of this analysis, the article questions some of the ways in which antiracism has been understood as a solely overt, explicit, and loud enterprise. From this starting point, the article draws on empirical research to outline some alternative ways of studying antiracism within institutions and organizations today. Through an exploration of trainers' and consultants' linguistic strategies, emotional negotiations, and journeys of self-understanding, this article paints a picture of antiracism today as a camouflaged, often silent but powerful player

Contextualization · Diversity (politics · Linguistics · Negotiation · Racism · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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