Era-defining events in 2020 – namely the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on Black and Brown people, the tragic killing of George Floyd and worldwide resistance led by the Black Lives Matter movement – have placed anti-Black racism and White privilege firmly on the public agenda.
This eagerly awaited successor to the ground-breaking Inside the Ivory Tower immediately resonated with me, by way of the writer of the foreword: Professor of Criminology and Sociology, William “Lez” Henry.