It is understood the project will examine how ethnic minority hikers may face open hostility when out walking, and how other visitors and recreational groups might feel excluded from enjoying the countryside. It added that this will "play a key role in uncovering the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced in rural towns and villages across the country”. Racism 'routinely overlooked'Ī statement on the new Rural Racism Project from the trust said it will “explore the lived realities of those encountering racism within the English countryside whose experiences are routinely overlooked, minimised and unchallenged”. The project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a charity established by a plantation-owning soap magnate behind Unilever, which vowed following Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 to help “rid the world of the systemic injustices of racism”. The study will gather evidence of “rural racism" in villages in England and the great outdoors, establishing how minorities might be excluded and which policies could prevent this in future. The English countryside will be studied by hate crime experts to establish whether it harbours "rural racism".Īcademics specialising in British colonialism and hate studies have been commissioned to record the “lived realities” of ethnic minorities living, working, or hiking in the country.
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