Seminars at UK universities are exploring the idea that white people enjoy an advantage they have not earned

Hundreds of university lecturers are being asked to acknowledge their “white privilege” in workshops that outline how their “whiteness” can make them unknowingly racist.

Masterclasses and seminars being advertised at universities across the UK are exploring the idea that white people enjoy an advantage that they have not earned, simply because of the colour of their skin. By contrast, many black staff and students are discriminated against regularly, it is claimed.

A session at Bristol University, hosted by the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff Advisory Group, entitled Walking on the White Side of the Street, said it would ask lecturers to “examine and acknowledge the destructive role of whiteness”.

“We will look at it as a day-to-day reality of white privilege that causes daily