Episode 12: Understanding racism, working towards the elimination of racial discrimination

Queen's University Belfast - QUB Voices

March resonates with the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In this episode Chrysi Kyratsou talks with Sydney Holt, PhD candidate at School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at QUB. Sydney unravels what fuels racism and how racial discriminations are expressed. Drawing on her research expertise and her personal experience, she explains why certain forms of racism may go unspotted, and how racism affects not only the targeted group, but the whole society. Finally, Sydney makes clear how each one of us may participate in systems that discriminate against minorities and how it is our job as human beings, to recognise our privilege and complicity and work to undo it.