You tracing of racial bias, through the key texts on racial bias, from primary education to academic careers is very clear. I find your observation at the end that ‘of course easier to relate to students whose projects center experiences similar to your own’ so useful. I know this in my own teaching, but I also find it hard to resist…Read more

I was also really struck by Kwama Appiah’s talk challenging the separation of life, knowledge and religion. I also struggle to find ways of bringing belief and learning together in the classroom and I wonder now if that is a direct result of this Western sense that religion and knowledge are separate things. Your point about the m…Read more

I feel envious of your ease around Muslim culture. I recognise many of the sterotypical biases you mention here that still persist in my conceptions of Muslim women – even though I know they are fuelled by Western bias. The lack of Muslim women in academic and particularly in leadership roles, only fuels unhelpful binary representations.…Read more