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Accepted Contribution:
Breaking the silence: exploring the role of race in development research and praxis
Angela Haynes
(University of Sussex)
Contribution short abstract:
I plan to highlight the manifestation of notions of race based on my academic research findings on African diaspora development activities and arising from my 25+ years of experience as a Black development practitioner in the 'mainstream' of the development industry.
Contribution long abstract:
The longstanding silence on issues of 'race' within the development sector has been deafening. I will look at:
- Assumptions about the lack of racialisation in the sector's recruitment and staffing processes; the behaviour of the staff; and the activities carried out by development organisations;
- the marginalisation of African diaspora organisations as development actors which has been masked by the use of apparently positive responses which function as smokescreens that explain the lack of engagement between mainstream and diaspora development organisations while masking the racialised reality;
- the teaching of development which allows for the discussion of 'white saviourism' and encouragement of self-reflection of all students, coexisting alongside the substitution of euphemistic terms such as 'the West', and 'westerners' and avoiding dilutes the relevance