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Race and ethnicity in UK public policy: education and health

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posted on 2006-04-21, 14:24 authored by Lorraine Culley, Jack Demaine
No sooner do we mention 'race' than we are caught in a treacherous bind. To say 'race' seems to imply that 'race' is real; but it also means that differentiation by race is racist and unjustifiable on scientific, theoretical, moral, and political grounds. We find ourselves in a classic Nietzschean double bind: 'race' has been the history of an untruth, of an untruth that unfortunately is our history ... The challenge here is to generate, from such a past and a present, a future where race will have been put to rest forever. (Radhakrishnan, 1996 cited in Gunaratnam, 2003)

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  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

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CULLEY, L. and DEMAINE, J., 2006. Race and ethnicity in UK public policy: education and health. IN: Rata, E. and Openshaw, R. Public Policy and Ethnicity. London: Palgrave Macmillan

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© Palgrave Macmillan

Publication date

2006

Notes

This is a book chapter, which will appear in the book, 'Public Policy and Ethnicity'.

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  • en