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The chapter engages with a case study of the university as a supposed post-racial space to examine the way post-racialism mobilises race to produce visible invisibilities. The workspace is depicted as a place of corporeality and embodiment, a place where emotions that come as a result of being racialised are manifested differently from other spaces. As well as looking at ways in which managing these emotions is challenging, the chapter also looks at how the emotions are interpreted as a personal and individual problem of people who focus on race. It analyses the post-racial idea that racism is a personal problem.
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Kamaloni, S. (2019). Is There Someone Else I Can Talk to? Raced Bodies at Work. In: Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10985-1_5
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