Elina Marmer’s research project IMAge of AFRica in EDUcation explores the connection between racism in textbooks and racial discrimination in the classroom. In addition to articles and material recommendations, the website also contains a racism-critical guide by a collective of authors.
“Textbooks are increasingly coming under criticism for reproducing colonial racist representations of Africa and people of African descent. The IMAFREDU (Image of Africa in Education) project at the University of Hamburg has investigated the impact of these representations on racism in the classroom.The result – the subtle and overt racist messages conveyed through deficit and pejorative constructs of Africa and Blackness in texts, sources, images and assignments hand down and manifest racist knowledge. They have a violent effect on students of African descent.” (from the self-description)