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The Race, Class and Ethnicity (RaCE) Interdisciplinary Research Network was developed as a response to the current and historic realities woven into the lived experiences at the intersection of race, class, and ethnicity in everyday locations.
The Race, Class and Ethnicity (RaCE) Interdisciplinary Research Network was officially launched in March 2019. It was developed as a response to the current and historic realities woven into the lived experiences at the intersection of race, class, and ethnicity in everyday locations. The fundamental logics of the network are that societal concerns related to economy, poverty and racism retain their power as influencing factors in everyday places and spaces. How these three intersecting social constructs are understood and materialise are of central concern to the Equality Act 2010 and to the requirements of public bodies to develop anti-discriminatory and inclusive practices.
The RaCE network has received funding from the University of Sunderland for its first three years in keeping with the core value of the University’s Strategic Plan to be inclusive and to celebrate ‘its diverse culture where everyone’s contribution is welcomed and valued’. The RaCE network, therefore, has established, through its aims, a set of underlying principles geared towards dismantling structural and everyday barriers which contribute to the persistence of inequalities in our contemporary world as it sees this mission as fundamental to developing an inclusive society.