Patronage and Clientelism: Global Systems of Reciprocal Power and Influence, by DB Roberts, 2025 The powerful patron and the dependent...

Introduction: Modern imperialism in the last three centuries refers to the expansion of European public and private wealth by means of...

I'm for anybody who's for equality. I'm not for anybody who tells me to sit around and wait for mine. Malcolm X. INTRODUCTION In...

DB Roberts INTRODUCTION Last year, a movie recounted the killing of a Black boy in Tennessee in 1955, in retaliation for his flippancy...

Or, 'deconfusing' decoloniality. Rebalancing power. Copyright of author Introduction In a March 2023 internal, unpublished survey of...

The Colour-Power Matrix: how institutional racism is preserved and perpetuated in UK universities DB Roberts Introduction I've referred...

Institutional racism illustrated: how an HR department helped USMT downplay, deny and cover up a racist EDI committee DB Roberts...

A Colour-Power Matrix in evidence. Or, how power and collusion pervert authenticity DB Roberts Introduction The previous blog post...

What the numbers say about racial power in UK universities DB Roberts This research project, undertaken in 2022 at Loughborough...

Institutional racism in UK universities DB Roberts What is Institutional Racism ? I dislike self-indulgent introductory rambles, so I’ll...

How and why the Ivory struggles with institutional racism DB Roberts It wasn't just two White men with a gun that night. It was every...

The greatest trick the devil ever played, was making us believe he doesn't exist - The Usual Suspects A Very British Notion Britain has...

More than a century ago, VI Lenin published an epochal work called Imperialism: the highest form of Capitalism. He perhaps couldn't have...

A giant boot, with a label showing corporate involvement, crushing ordinary people. Involves Corporate Social Responsibility.

Recollections of a racial past in a racist present DB Roberts FOREWORD I need you to understand two things when you read this note....

DB Roberts Racism and discrimination are structural; approaches to EDI must be too When I was a kid in 1970s Northern England, there was...

DB Roberts In other blog posts, I have made a number of arguments advancing the use of images in teaching and learning. These arguments...

DB Roberts Throughout the time I have taught in a British Business and Management Studies university department, I have never understood...

DB Roberts Because disease forced distance upon us, universities embraced the need to provide services remotely. It was transformative....

DB Roberts Probably everyone’s experienced at some time ‘Death by PowerPoint’: a presentation that, rather than engaging your attention,...