The structure of structural racism

The term 'structural racism' although frequently invoked colloquially, is not ordinarily part of doctrine of racial discrimination law across jurisdictions. This talk lays bare a conceptual framework of structural racism which can form the basis of existing provision on the prohibition of racial discrimination, which I argue, do not necessarily express a preference between various forms of racisms. These provisions thus leave open the possibility of reading in versions of 'radical anti-racism' as part of existing text of guarantees in a normative sense.

Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and is based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Shreya works on equality and human rights law and her work has been cited by the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Supreme Court of India. Her monograph, Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019) won the runner-up Peter Birks Book Prize in 2020. Shreya is an Editor of the Human Rights Law Review published by OUP. She is an associate member of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, an Official Fellow and the Racial Justice and Equality Fellow at Kellogg College, and a Senior Teaching Fellow at New College. Shreya was previously based at the University of Bristol Law School and has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at the NYU School of Law, New York. She completed BCL with distinction and DPhil in Law on a Rhodes Scholarship from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

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