Uk

Abstract

In December 1997, the Institute of Race Relations launched HomeBeats, the first CD-ROM on racism and the black presence in Britain. Based on the sum of IRR's pioneering work in anti-racist education, it also carries forward both that analysis and that practice. Below, A. Sivanandan out lines the philosophy that led to the production of HomeBeats; Arun Kundnani, the designer, describes its implementation, and Liz Fekete demonstrates how, elsewhere in academia, anti-racist education is being displaced by approaches centred on identity — rescuing the racists from themselves by furnishing them with a new, raceless identity.