Building the Anti-Racist University

Shirley Anne Tate is Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Her area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly. Her work focuses on the intersections of 'race' and gender, and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, 'mixed race', beauty, 'race' performativity and Caribbean decolonial studies.

Paul Bagguley is Reader in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK. His main interests are in the sociology of social movements, racism and ethnicity. In the field of racism and ethnicity studies he has worked on the 2001 riots, South Asian women and higher education, the impacts of the 7/7 London bombings on different ethnic and religious groups in West Yorkshire and the cosmopolitanism of traditional British retail markets. More broadly his research interests and publications have encompassed economic sociology, urban studies and social theory.