Jeffrey Boakye

I Heard What You Said (eBook, ePUB)

A Black Teacher, A White System

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the Bread & Roses Award
An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The Year

'Essential reading' - The Guardian
'Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour' - The i
'Revealing and beautifully written' - David Harewood
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A thought-provoking and fearless exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.

???????Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye's is a journey of exploration - from the outside looking in.

In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher - an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts - his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK's classrooms.

Told through a series of eye-opening encounters based on the often challenging and sometimes outrageous things people have said to him or about him - from 'Can you rap?' and 'Have you been in prison?' to 'Stephen who?' - Boakye reflects with passion and wit on what he has found out about the presumptions, silences and distortions that underpin the experience of black students and teachers.
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'Hugely important' - Baroness Lawrence
'Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential' - Nels Abbey
'Makes a powerful case' - Rt Hon Lady Hale

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529063769
• Artikelnr.: 63097606

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Boakye is an author, broadcaster, educator and journalist with a particular interest in issues surrounding race, masculinity, education and popular culture. Originally from Brixton in London, Jeffrey has taught secondary English for fifteen years. He is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Manchester and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester.

Jeffrey's books include Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime; Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored, and What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions. He is also the co-presenter of BBC Radio 4's double award-winning Add to Playlist. He now lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two sons.