Taxpayer’s money will fund work which ensures the mandated narrative, and cash has gone to the “Re:Collections” project, which takes a leading role in this work by instructing Welsh museums on how to become “anti-racist organisations”.
The project has provided a “resource” which sets out a definition of racism.
Written by Maya Sharma, a strategic adviser for the programme, it claims that: “Racism is, fundamentally, the belief that white people and their ways of thinking, culture, political systems and histories are superior to that of other ‘races’.”
She has claimed in a set of resources for the Re:Collections project to make Welsh museums anti-racist that racism as a whole is based on a power imbalance, wherein “white people, institutes and nations hold far larger amounts of power”.
The overview of what racism is, and how to mitigate it in the museum sector, makes it clear that there are both interpersonal and institutional variants of racism.
Interpersonal racism is “where white people hold negative, stereotypical or discriminatory beliefs about people from other ethnicities”, according to the resource for museums.
Institutional racism she has defined as an institution having policies and practices “that work better for white people”....<<<Read More>>>...