Articles and other resources

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Some articles, resources and features published on Rural Race Equality.

1. Challenging Racism in the Rural Idyll - Rural Race Equality Project
2. Keep Them in Birmingham - Commission for Racial Equality report  Eric Jay 
3. White Anti-Racism: Is it really "no go" in Rural Areas?  By a Lecturer in Social Work. University of Bath.  This paper notes the danger of certain parts of the country becoming "no-go" areas for anti-racism because white practitioners claim that it is either unnecessary or impossible to develop skills in anti-racist practice in the absence of black people.  The fallacy of all-white areas is exposed, and the particular importance of developing anti-racist practices in predominantly white areas is argued. The need for white practitioners to actively reflect on theory and understanding is seen as paramount to the development of anti-racist practices, some of which are listed. 
4. The unheard cries - Racism in rural areas is still a hidden problem. CRE Connections Magazine Summer 1998 (PDF file Acrobat Reader is required)
5. Risk of race attacks highest outside Britain's big cities, survey reveals
6.  The Observer 18 February: Race attacks are almost 10 times more likely to happen in rural areas, according to an exclusive survey for The Observer , which also shows that more than two thirds of people think the police are as racist as ever.
7. The hidden truth behind race crimes in Britain
8.  The Observer 18 February: Jay Rayner has spent two months creating a race map of Britain that reflects the true rates of recorded abuse and assault. Two years after the Lawrence inquiry, he finds that it is rural areas, not inner cities, that are the flashpoints.
9. Isolation in the shires - Paul Henderson on a conference aiming to fight rural prejudice - The Guardian - Wednesday July 14, 1999
10. Tackling Racially Motivated Crime in Devon Conference Report and Action Plan (21 January 2000)