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The Myth of Racist Kids – anti-racist policy and the regulation of school life

An extract from The Myth of Racist Kids

"A school playground is a mess of exuberant sociability, of running,

shouting, falling-out, making-up, showing off, teasing – and there is

something deeply wrong when these childish games become a matter

for officials and even the police.

 

Wounding Words

(An additional extract from The Myth of Racist Kids is re-printed below, as it appeared in the first impression, 29th October 2009)

(from 'Wounding words' page 54 - 58)

Official anti-racism pays particular attention to what it calls ‘wounding words’. This holds that certain words or phrases, once uttered, represent air-born acts of racism, regardless of the status or intentions of the speaker.

 


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