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From “coloured footballers” to the classic “people of a funny tinge”, Britain continues to struggle with race.
We’ve been labelled politically black, BME and now we’ve arrived at BAME - but is this really progress? @kehinde_andrews for Make It Plain https://bit.ly/35vy8Nn
We’ve been labelled politically black, BME and now we’ve arrived at BAME - but is this really progress? @kehinde_andrews for Make It Plain https://bit.ly/35vy8Nn
The term BAME is the latest in a long line of terminology used to lump non-white people into one umbrella category
Not only does the term erase cultural differences and identities it also centres whiteness
When Greg Clarke used the term ‘Coloured’ much of the uproar cane due to the term’s association with the Jim Crow era and segregation in the US, as well as the UK’s own well-documented history of racism
But the term was also rejected due to it perpetuating the idea that whiteness was the benchmark of normality, the standard. If you weren’t white, then you were coloured.
But while ‘Coloured’ is universally understood to be offensive and unacceptable, its (latest) successor somehow still reigns supreme...and largely serves the same purpose
Should we still be using the term BAME?
