I, Too, Am Oxford

On Monday I shared a note about the I Too Am Harvard Campaign. Here is another way the dialogue on race on college campuses is showing up.

I, Too, Am Oxford

From the I, Too, Am Oxford website

“Our project was inspired by the recent ‘I, too, am Harvard’ initiative. The Harvard project resonated with a sense of communal disaffection that students of colour at Oxford have with the University. The sharing of the Buzzfeed article ‘I, too, am Harvard’ on the online Oxford based race forum, ‘Skin Deep’ led to students quickly self organising a photoshoot within the same week. A message that was consistently reaffirmed throughout the day was that students in their daily encounters at Oxford are made to feel different and Othered from the Oxford community.Hopefully this project will demonstrate that despite there being a greater number of students of colour studying at Oxford now than there has ever been before, there are still issues that need to be discussed. In participating in ‘I, Too, Am Oxford,’ students of colour are demanding that a discussion on race be taken seriously and that real institutional change occur.”

Ubuntu,

From Aspiring Humanitarian, Relando Thompkins, MSW, LLMSW

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