But at the Moving on Up project at Hackney Council for Voluntary Service (HCVS), young men searching for a job are remixing their names. But many of the other young black men who visit the project are unemployed. It is young black men who suffer the brunt of the exclusion, in particular thanks to specific stereotypes around aggression and fecklessness. “Aggression and violence is the strongest stereotype that research has shown is associated with black men,” Kandola says. But young black men are not sitting back and waiting for procedures to be put in place and for attitudes to change.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2018 17:44 UTC