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The in/visible journey: Black women’s lifelong lessons in higher education

The in/visible journey: Black women’s lifelong lessons in higher education . Heidi Safia Mirza Professor of Equalities Studies in Education Institute of Education University of London. Indian Suffragettes -1911 Women’s Coronation Procession.

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The in/visible journey: Black women’s lifelong lessons in higher education

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  1. The in/visible journey:Black women’s lifelong lessons in higher education Heidi Safia Mirza Professor of Equalities Studies in Education Institute of Education University of London

  2. Indian Suffragettes -1911 Women’s Coronation Procession

  3. Cornelia Sorabji first woman ever to study law in a British University- Somerville College Oxford 1889

  4. Embodying Difference “Adorned and unadorned I cannot escape the fantasies of the western imagination … this desire for colonial bodies as spectacle ….is essentially an extension of the desiring machine of capital” (Simmonds in Black British Feminism 1997: 232)

  5. Staff 2.5 ethnic minority/ 1.6% female mainly new universities part time fixed term contract low grade /less senior posts younger more harassment and discrimination Students 15 % ethnic minority/ 8 % female mainly new universities mainly part-time highest participation rates of any group older (mature 24+) health, education and social sciences National audit office 2004 Ethnic Minority women in HE

  6. Diversity in Higher Education “Diversity is widely agreed to be a desirable feature in Higher Education” “It is vital for the continuing health of the higher education sector that it should recruit from a wide and diverse human resource pool . This is not only on the grounds of equity, but equally sound for business reasons” ( HEFCE/ Equality Challenge UUK 2003 )

  7. “Outsider within” “ young black women set off into the white world carrying expectations of mythic proportions...their odysseys, they believe will transform their lives ...but separated from their cultural communities these young women's passages turn out to be isolated individual journeys ..’into the heart of whiteness’ ’’ ( Casey 1993:132 )

  8. Politics of containment “Whereas racial segregation was designed to keep blacks as a group or class outside centres of power, surveillance now aims to control black individuals inside centres of power when they enter the white spaces of the public and private spheres “.( Hill Collins:20 1998)”

  9. Relocating the self “Marginality is a central location for the production of a counter hegemonic discourse - it is found in the words, habits and the way one lives…..It is a site one clings to even when moving to the centre...it nourishes our capacity to resist... It is an inclusive space where we recover ourselves, where we move in solidarity to erase the category coloniser/colonised.” (hooks 1990:150)

  10. The other story Female centered desire for education Black female educational urgency Black female educators as transformative agents for social change A new ( radical educational) social movement? • Black female educational urgency • Black female educators as transformative agents for social change • A new ( radical educational) social movement

  11. “In a racist society …to become educated is to contradict the whole system of racist signification …to succeed in studying white knowledge is to undo the the system itself ...to refute its reproduction of black inferiority materially and symbolically” Katheleen Casey I Answer With My Life ( 1993 Routledge )

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