Racism & Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy? - A Critical Analysis

This book delves into the pervasive issue of racism within education systems globally. It examines how racial inequality persists in various countries, including Africa, Australia, America, and Asia. The author, David Gillborn, argues that the current education system fails to provide equal opportunities and perpetuates discrimination, particularly against African/Black children in Britain and North America. The book explores the historical roots of racism in education, tracing its origins to colonial practices and the legacy of slavery. It also highlights the impact of structural and institutional racism on the educational experiences of marginalized groups. Furthermore, the book delves into the critical race theory, which provides a framework for understanding the systemic nature of racism and its influence on education. By analyzing the historical context, current realities, and theoretical perspectives, the book aims to raise awareness about the challenges of racial inequality in education and advocate for systemic change.

Racism & Education

Contents
Racism & Education........................................................................................................................3
AIM..................................................................................................................................................3
Aimed Audience and their Action...................................................................................................3
Approach it takes to reach the aim..................................................................................................3
Referencing with other texts............................................................................................................4
Relevant Today................................................................................................................................4
Critical Race theory importance......................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Racism & Education
As per the changing world scenario the education system has been developed to make the people
elite, disciplined as well it also helps to remove the drawbacks of the society that are continuing
since the prolonged period of time. It also helps people to forget the bad things that have
happened in past and tries to develop the feeling of friendship and peace but there are some
zones that still needs to be improved, racism is one of them today in many countries peoples are
differentiating each other on the basis of the racism. David Gill born a famous British
educational researcher is well known for his book Racism & Education: Coincidence or
Conspiracy (Globalsocialtheory.org, 2018).
AIM
The book Racism & Education focuses on how the racism is continuing in all the parts of the
world such as in Africa Continent, Australian Continent, American Continent and Asian
Continent. The book also mentions the race inequality is a not better thing and it is making the
things worst for every country it affects the political and economic condition of the country. In
his book, David gillborn mentions that today’s education system does not provide the education
equality but it creating the gaps as well as the discrimination throughout the global world. The
book also describes the multiple issues of racism in education and discrimination of African /
black children in Britain and North America, Both Structure and institution wise racism is also
continued in Great Britain for many years it also tells that everyone should get the quality of the
education and race discrimination should not come in it. This book also reveals about the Critical
research Theory. It also focused that how the white supremacy has been established according to
which the education system is shaped (Allen, 2018).
Aimed Audience and their Action
The book describes the fragile management that leads in developing the race inequality in the
many countries it also highlights that how in Africa and America Continent the racism system
creating the gap between the peoples of that specific region it tells them how the white race is
creating the supremacy over there while black race progress is quite slow in comparison to the
white race, in many African countries the black race is confined to low domain only. According
to the data available, the black race students are suspended four times more than white students,
while the teaching staff members provided to them are not of very good quality thus their whole
education system is confined to low level only.
First of all, it started with the colonial countries trade they never ever saw a black person and
consider them as a low people, black people also worked as the slaves for the white people so
they were also derived of the best education system. This practice continued for many years the
black slaves neither their children were taught to read and write they are deprived of all
educations this evil practice continued till American Civil war and many leaders emerge those
times and revolted against this traditions
Approach it takes to reach the aim
Later as the revolution break some black got educated and start teaching other for it even many
blacks participate in the civil war after North had defeated south in the war many slaves are freed

from the bondage of slavery. Several schools are made in the black areas but are not provided
with the proper funding. Also, the good quality of teachers is not deployed there, also the oldest
and worn out books were provided to them. Even though education was started there but it is a
quiet less effort still the best doesn’t deliver to them what white gets.
This tragic thing continued for the many years after the civil war also, white people are still
considering black as inferior ones and not allowed them to wander freely in their place. Similarly
such famous incident happens with the Mahatma Gandhi (Famous Freedom Fighter of India)
once he is traveling in South Africa in first-class train compartment where many British people
are also traveling later by the order of white people MR. Gandhi including his luggage has been
thrown out from his compartment and forced to travel in a lower class compartment which was
for black natives. Same Zeus Leonardo mentioned in his book how the education is influenced
by the racism he also mentioned that more frequently white students are promoted to the higher
education domain area which made them propel for good cultivation of skills on another side
black, the Latino student is not getting good things to develop their skills
Referencing with other texts
One day in the year 1955 a famous incident occurred which sparked the feeling of black people
to demand for their right In the year 1955 a black lady whose name was Rosa demands for sitting
in front of the bus where white people used to sit, when she was suggested to move to backside
she resisted for doing that.
After that many laws and many initiatives have been taken by the government of all over the
world to end this segregation, even American government has promoted and boosted the athletes
such as Jesse Owens and Mohammad Ali, Even South African Cricket team is banned by ICC
(International Cricket Council) as it continues practicing racial discrimination. Although after
taking a lot of initiatives a recent study reveals that it is still there. In Britain, the Race, Racism,
and Social work focus on the issues of race and racism in the modern Britain many social
workers are making the efforts to minimize the segregation by creating the social awareness
among the citizens of England. They are organizing camps activities to isolate the racism issue.
Similarly, President Ruther, Francis Lawrence has once said that black student do worst in SAT
test due to their genetic characteristic this incident created chaos and mayhem in all the country
resulting in protest for the basketball game
Relevant Today
According to the changing world, it is very important to maintain peace and harmony so it is
necessary to isolate inequality from the world.The proper education system should be delivered
to create and maintain peace and unity. The book Racism and Education: Coincidence or
conspiracy contains many best things that teacher in many schools used to implement best
educations e.g. It contains examples many African American person who are well known for
their name and fame across the global world e.g. Martin Luther King ,Jesse Owens , Paul
Adams, Nelson Mandala and Oprah Winfrey these famous personalities can be a good
motivational model who overcome all the barriers of racism and became famous American
government has made the motto equal rights and equal race and encourage and motivate black

peoples to participate in more cultural events due to this many American black athletes bags
medals for America in Olympics and other such sports (Fatsis, 2018).
Apart from this, there are many other books also that are good resource model for the teacher to
encourage the race equality e.g. between the world and me, black stats by Monique Morris, the
new Jim crow, the light of the world etc. The classroom is very best place in which the teaching
of race equality can be done it enables the children to develop the positive idea to encourage the
race equality teachers are responsible for the child’s development they b can be their role models
and should teach children about the evil face of race discrimination
Critical Race theory importance
Critical race theory foundation is laid by Derrick Bell an African –American Processor and Alan
Freeman white scholar that theory transforms our surrounding and understanding on the points
such as racism and race-ethnicity.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) mentions that racism is usual in many countries with the white
supremacy in education and in other domains. It also gives an analysis of race and racism from
the legal point of view. Critical race theory analyze the details from across the global world and
found the drawbacks. Racism is permanent, Challenge to the dominant ideology, interest
convergence theory, Intersectionality, It also reveals that the world in which we live is not
perfect the whole things depends on the supremacy of the race. CRT offers many privileges to
teachers and scholars to encourage and understand the basic hierarchy how the race supremacy
has been created and changed according to time to time. It also mentions with CRT racism are
also widespread and it is much more embedded in the world structure. Henceforth government of
every nation should make mandatory the Racism & Education book topic should be there in
every class syllabus to motivate them to develop peace and harmony (www1.uwindsor.ca, 2018).

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