![]() Our friends at the IRR have donated a wonderful collection of approximately 300 books from their library, which we will be offering in a special in-store sale from 11am on Thursday 22nd October 2020 onwards. As you might expect, the books are primarily on themes of race, ethnicity, immigration, and international politics. The collection includes many academic books as well as trade titles, with many copies in immaculate, as-new condition. As ever with all Housmans sales we will be selling the books at £1, £3 and £5. The sale will continue while stocks last – for at least two weeks we expect – with additional stock being put out daily. ![]() ABOUT THE IRR: ![]() LATEST IRR REPORT: How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System
Author of the report and IRR researcher Jessica Perera says ‘amidst the Black Lives Matter protests, we have seen increased demands to decolonise the curriculum. At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a system which fails working-class students. This paper reminds us that those who have been continually failed are found in PRUs (Pupil Referral Units) and AP ( Alternative Provision) and that their segregation is a damning indictment of a planned education malaise, which has been designed and deployed on a specific section of society with a history of resistance and rebellion.’ IRR Director, Liz Fekete added, ‘With this paper, the IRR challenges the superficial analysis that stigmatises young Black Londoners for knife crime whilst failing to look reality in the eye. Could it be that factors such as austerity, privatisation and educational enclosure have in fact hardwired racial injustice into society?’
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