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Radio 4,4 mins

Who should tackle structural racism in our institutions?

Woman's Hour

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In 2014 the journalist and writer Reni Eddo-Lodge published a post on her blog titled “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race”. In it she claimed that she could “no longer engage with the gulf of an emotional disconnect that white people display when a person of colour articulates their experience.” Reni joins Emma Barnett to discuss her new book of the same name and explains why, having decided that she was no longer going to discuss race with white people, she has been doing just that for the past three years.

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