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Black Oxford - The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars (Paperback)
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Black Oxford - The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars (Paperback)
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Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's
most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of
states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and
many other luminaries among its alumni. On any tour of the
University and colleges famous ex-students - Tony Blair, Bill
Clinton, Margaret Thatcher - to name a few are often mentioned -
but what about its Black scholars? The University has a long but
little known history of attracting Black scholars from Africa, the
Caribbean, America and even Australia since the matriculation in
1873 of Christian Fredrick Cole, who became the first African to
practise in an English court. He was followed by other outstanding
personalities: Alain Locke, the 'Father of the Harlem Renaissance'
and the first Black scholar to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in
1907; Kofoworola Moore, the first African woman to graduate from
the University in 1935; Eric Williams, the great historian of the
Caribbean, who was elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
Oxford's Black alumni include statesmen, lawyers and teachers. More
recently, Oxford-educated African American women have risen to high
office in the United States. Students from all parts of Africa, the
Caribbean and the Commonwealth have made significant contributions
and left lasting legacies in the fields of politics, literature,
science and the arts. Uncovering the stories of prominent and
lesser-known Black students at Oxford, Pamela Roberts reveals a
hitherto undocumented strand in the University's history and its
relationship with the wider world.
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