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#BAMEOver - The Statement ‘BAME more than any other acronym has been used to obfuscate and hide the systemic inequalities that are inherent especially in the cultural sector. BAME is used by people who feel their job is done if someone BAME is on a panel or is employed in an entry-level post. BAME is for people who posted black squares on Instagram and came up with anti-racist statements without looking at their all-white staff teams or their all-white boards.’ Listen to a snippet from her speech here. Lara is a freelance consultant specialising in diversity, leadership, collaboration, ideas, innovation cultural policy implementation within the HE, cultural and digital sector.
Meet the psychologist exploring unconscious bias—and its tragic consequences for society When Jennifer Eberhardt appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in April 2019, she had a hard time keeping a straight face. But some of the laughs were painful. Discussing unconscious racial bias, which she has studied for years, the Stanford University psychologist mentioned the “other-race effect,” in which people have trouble recognizing faces of other racial groups.