Future

To complement our commitment to re-researching, re-teaching, and re-learning race, the Race Equality Charter Mark will begin to address the institutional progress which must be made by UCLto dismantle unjust racialised hierarchy. We are committed to ensuring that administrative staff, academics, and students concerned with matters relating to racialisation are all agents in this process.

We hope that the outcome will provide resources for the important institutional work that is being spearheaded by the UCLU BME Students’ Officer and her Liberation Committee, by the UCL Race Equality Steering Group and the broader UCL Race Equality Group, and by the UCL Equality Champion, on Senior Management Team, for Race, Religion, and Belief.

Our winning the Race Equality Charter Mark would help us administratively, in our institution, and it would help us academically, in the intellectual contributions we would be able to make, to our workplace and to the wider world.

Race is too often presented, here in Britain, as something which takes place abroad – in Johannesburg, for instance, or in Mississippi. Yet, for over a century, in many ways, Britain, and, indeed, London, has been racism’s administrative capital.

Now the colonial subjects who have been, for so long, administered at arm’s length, have established themselves here, in Empire’s historic centre. It is now our job to engage with Empire’s continuing legacies, both at home and abroad, to formulate a new radical and critical way of producing and consuming knowledge about race and to challenge the unjust racialised hierarchies which dominate. Our job is the job of #educationalrepair.