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BRIDGE Main Challenge: A.5. Discrimination, racism and sociocultural polarisation, including hate speech
Racist speech circulates openly in social media, mainstream media and populist discourse across Europe, but much discrimination stays invisible: microaggressions, cultural privilege and internalised racism. Youth workers often lack tools to recognise and address these hidden forms of racism with young people.
E-STAR researched invisible racism across Italy, Spain, Hungary and Norway, then produced a Manual and Toolkit, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for youth workers, and a 4-day international seminar, equipping youth workers to make invisible racism visible and promote good treatment.
E-STAR (Erasmus+ Youth KA205, Feb 2020–May 2022) is led by Cazalla Intercultural (Spain) with Replay Network (Italy), Emberség Erejével Alapítvány (Hungary) and Terram Pacis (Norway). It researched invisible racism — microaggressions, cultural privilege, internalised racism — across the four countries, producing a Manual and Toolkit and a self-paced MOOC for youth workers.
Racist speech circulates openly in social media, mainstream media and populist discourse across Europe, but much discrimination against young people stays invisible: microaggressions, cultural privilege and internalised racism that both victims and perpetrators may not consciously recognise.
Invisible racism is harmful precisely because it is normalised and often unconscious: it cannot be challenged if youth workers and young people do not have the concepts and tools to name it when it happens.
E-STAR builds youth workers' capacity to recognise and name invisible racism (microaggressions, cultural privilege, internalised racism), directly targeting the sociocultural polarisation this BRIDGE Challenge addresses.
A 4-day international seminar with 12 youth workers and experts fed into a Manual and Toolkit and a 5-module self-paced MOOC, developed collaboratively across four countries and freely available online for youth workers, educators and teachers.
E-STAR Manual and Toolkit
Manual
Manual and toolkit for youth workers on invisible racism: microaggressions, cultural privilege, internalised racism, with 18 activities.
Teaching staff, Professionals
E-STAR MOOC on invisible racism
Online training
Self-paced online course in 5 modules on invisible racism, for youth workers, in English with Italian subtitles
Teaching staff, Professionals
E-STAR project page
Interactive digital resource
Official page of the E-STAR project with information on partners, objectives and access to the Manual and the MOOC on invisible racism
Teaching staff, General Public