Miles, a successful lawyer, is mistaken for the waiter at a networking event. Femi is on the verge of breakdown having been consistently overlooked for promotion at her university. Nigel's emails, repeatedly expressing concern about his employer's forthcoming slavery exhibition, are ignored. Carol knows she can't let herself relax at the work Christmas party...
This is racism. It is not about the overt acts of random people at the fringes of society. It's about the everyday. It's the loaded silence, the throwaway remark, the casual comment or a 'joke' in the workplace.
It's everything.
Nicola Rollock is Professor of Social Policy and Race at King's College London. She is a member of the Wellcome Trust's Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group and Specialist Adviser to the Home Affairs' Select Committee's 'Macpherson 22 Years On' Inquiry. She was selected by Times Higher Education as one of eleven scholars globally to have influenced the debate in higher education. She is widely known for her research which examines, for the first time in the UK, the career experiences of Black female Professors and the exhibition that led on from this, Phenomenal Women. She has written for the Guardian, the FT and Vogue and she appeared as an expert contributor in the Bafta-winning Channel 4 documentary 'The school that tried to end racism'.
