Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin

Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism: Implications for Education and Work

The Bartlett Pan-African Indigenist Collective shares Understanding and Managing Racism by Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin.

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Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism: Implications for Education and Work unpacks both overt and subtle forms of racism, examining their effects on individuals and systems across the education and employment sectors. Showunmi and Tomlin draw from lived experiences, policy analysis, and case studies to expose how racialised patterns are embedded in hiring, evaluation, curriculum, and leadership structures. The authors also explore strategies for healing, resistance, and transformative practice. Their work is grounded in Black feminist theory and offers educators and practitioners practical tools to address structural harm.

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This reference was recommended by the Bartlett Pan-African Indigenist Collective.

The Collective is a space for critical dialogue, activism, and scholarship that foregrounds Pan-African Indigenist ways of knowing, being, and creating. Formed by members of the Bartlett community dedicated to uplifting the voices, knowledge, and cultural legacies of people of African heritage and their respective Indigenous communities and lands, it aims to challenge colonial legacies and inspire transformation within institutional structures, research and curricula. By integrating creative and scholarly practices, the Collective works to restore narratives that have been silenced or misrepresented. Their work advances decolonial efforts in higher education by creating inclusive spaces and centring diverse African knowledge systems. Bartlett Alternative recognises the Collective’s vital contribution to broadening intellectual and cultural horizons through radical inclusivity and exclusivity, and thanks them for sharing resources that foreground lived experience, land-based knowledge systems, and epistemic justice.

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