Ayana Jordan

Abstract

“When people know better, they do better, for the most part”, Ayana Jordan (Yale University, CT, USA) elucidates, with a caveat. “I'm always going to be honest, and there are conversations I have, to try to get people to understand things, that used to upset me, but now I am doing this work, I can see enlightenment, I do see change”. Such conversations would typically be around entrenched racism; the stark contrast in the treatment people receive based on the colour of their skin. “We want to believe we are in a post-racial era, but the reality is the world is beginning to recognise how damaging racism can be”, she says.