brap has launched a new book all about the black and minority ethnic third sector – its roots, the political context in which it operates, the challenges it faces, and its future development.

Download  The Pied Piper (1.9 MB) 

As well as being a useful resource for people working with or for BME third sector organisations, The Pied Piper is a provocative and enjoyable account of the last 60 years of race relations – a good read as well as a good resource.

Offering a better understanding of the BME sector and its development, The Pied Piper has already received acclaim from a variety of sources. Nelarine Cornelius, Professor of Human Resource Management and Organization Studies at Bradford University, described the book as “an excellent overview of modern race relations – extremely useful to anyone wanting to know why the BME third sector is the way it is.”

Roger Zetter, Professor of Refugee Studies at Oxford University, said: “The Pied Piper is a readable introduction to the BME third sector moves away from simple narratives to explode some myths about black and minority ethnic communities and their chequered relations with policy makers.”

Packed full of information and analysis, The Pied Piper shows that the development needs of the BME sector are different - but for reasons that are more complex than is generally understood. As the book explains: "These needs arise, not from some culturally determined lack of capability, and not even from a clear case of unequal development, although the sector does reflect the wider discrimination and disadvantage of British society and therefore this is a factor. The central issue is that the purpose, shape, developmental trajectory and even the 'identity' of the BME third sector has been determined largely by its unique sixty-year relationship with UK race relations policy."

The Pied Piper is available free to download.

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