Henry, William Anthony (2024) From exclusion to excellence, you are what you learn! Black Histories. pp. 1-13. ISSN 2832-529X

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Abstract

I will argue here, as one who was born in the London borough of Lewisham to Jamaican parents, that to present an alternative take on what it means to be educated in an institutionalised and systemically racist society, is crucial to conversations on so-called “black underachievement” and anti-racism in the UK. Drawing on aspects of my biography, anecdotally and lyrically in an auto-ethnographic way,Footnote1

1 Autoethnography is an approach to research that enables the author to interconnect, the personal, social, cultural and autobiographical, in novel and interesting ways.

will make known the journey of a child deemed uneducable, who was expelled from school at fifteen and from college at sixteen. Doing so will permit me to reason on the validity and viability of alternative sites of learning, that are in essence black led, grassroots, and community-based spaces for holistic edification. Indeed, it was my exposure to black studies during the 1970s, in the Southeast London-based Moonshot Youth and Community Centre, that inspired my life-journey from exclusion to excellence, as evidenced here.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1080/28325281.2024.2353084
Additional Information:	** From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ** History: epub 17-05-2024; issued 17-05-2024; published 17-05-2024.
Subjects:	Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Social sciences > Communication and culture
SWORD Depositor:	Jisc Router
Depositing User:	Jisc Router
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2024 05:45
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2024 12:24
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/11952

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