A MUSLIM academic at Glasgow University has said that she received a backlash from her “white peers” after criticising Scotland’s colonial past.
Writing in the London Review of Education, Nighet Riaz, equality, diversity and inclusion policy adviser at the University of Glasgow, said that ethnic minorities are viewed as an “undeserving deviant other” who have “to ‘prove’ they have the right to belong through assimilation” into British culture.
