This article provides an overview of over two decades of anti racism policy and practice in Britain, the USA and Canada, and its ineffectiveness in providing equitable education for African Caribbean and other students of minority races. Contributing to this failure are such factors as a serious lack of accountability infrastructure for policy implementation, white teachers’ perspectives on race and meritocracy, and their contestation of anti racism on pedagogical and ideological grounds. More recently, the educational reform movement away from social justice education to a state-mandated standardized curriculum and the “marketization of education” for a corporate global economy have further undermined the antiracism project. Consequently, African Caribbean students have developed a vibrant “culture of resistance” and have utilized a range of oppositional behaviours in their struggle for equitable schooling. But student resistance has been thwarted by “zero tolerance” policies, which further alienate and antagonize students. This article concludes with some challenges for antiracism educators in order to restore hope for African Caribbean students in these societies.