Taking Up Space
The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
$27.69
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2020
Summary
A groundbreaking exploration of the problems of diversity in education.
‘Brilliant’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE ‘Essential’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER ‘Hugely important’ PAULA AKPAN
As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.
FOR BLACK GIRLS Understand t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529118544 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529118549 |
| Author: | Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Merky Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Brilliant… Full of the knowledge, understanding, tools and kindness that every black girl needs.
Brilliant… Full of the knowledge, understanding, tools and kindness that every black girl needs.
Intimate… like reading the diary of a well-informed friend. The result is a bold venture… full of what will be revelations to some and reminders to others. The authors dignify the argument with nuance, and puncture the tendency to see black students as a monolith… For countless black women in Britain, a century after women’s suffrage and in spite of the Race Relations Act, it can feel like the glass ceiling is reinforced by concrete, with those above unable to see below. And self-help, it seems, remains essential. * TLS *
Taking Up Space is a shocking account of how racism operates in the academy from a student viewpoint. An essential contribution.
A hugely important tool that I wish I’d had to guide me through university.
About The Author
Chelsea Kwakye
Chelsea Kwakye (Author)
Chelsea Kwakye is a first-class honours History graduate from Homerton College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she was the only black girl in her year group of around 200 to read History. In her final year, she was Vice-President of the African-Caribbean Society and competed in a Cambridge vs. Oxford Varsity Athletics match. She is currently studying at the University of Law in preparation for a training contract with a city law firm in London.
Ore Ogunbiyi (Author)
Ore Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian-British Politics and International Relations graduate from Jesus College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she pioneered the Benin Bronze Repatriation campaign, the #BlackMenofCambridgeUniversity campaign and was President of the African-Caribbean Society. She has since completed a Masters in Journalism at Columbia University, New York and is currently working as a Special Assistant and Speechwriter to the Vice President of Nigeria.
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