Making Sense of Racial Identity: Racial Being or Being Racialized?
Learners' Journeys Towards Identity Development
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2025
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-90-04-75134-7 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to learn while navigating race, identity, and belonging? In this striking collection, students from UCL IOE's Sociology of Race and Education course-led by Dr Victoria Showunmi-share autobiographical essays exploring assimilation, colourism, passing, cultural appropriation, and double consciousness.
With storytelling at its heart, and guided by theories like Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Whiteness Studies, these essays reveal how education shapes racial identity across time and place. This volume invites leaders, educators, students or curious readers to reflect, question, and engage with the lived realities of racialised education.
Contributors are: Joshua Agyepong, Zahra Alomani, Jo Barber, Esha Bhandari, Anna Brown, Evelyne Carlen, Raiesa Choudhury, Jessica Costa, Avili Feese, Amanda Fernando, Eleanor Garrett, Jill Geary, Sharon Gyimah, Stephen Hancock, Rachel Idowu, Samantha Jacob, Viola Kanu, Vijayakymar Kularetnam, Hannah Lynn, Katherine MacLennan, Elodie Mayo, Victoria Moore, Karishma Patel, Tahmid Rahman, Beatriz Ramirez, Julia Spence, LSW, Annalisea Whyte, Miranda Williams and Michah Wyatt.
With storytelling at its heart, and guided by theories like Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Whiteness Studies, these essays reveal how education shapes racial identity across time and place. This volume invites leaders, educators, students or curious readers to reflect, question, and engage with the lived realities of racialised education.
Contributors are: Joshua Agyepong, Zahra Alomani, Jo Barber, Esha Bhandari, Anna Brown, Evelyne Carlen, Raiesa Choudhury, Jessica Costa, Avili Feese, Amanda Fernando, Eleanor Garrett, Jill Geary, Sharon Gyimah, Stephen Hancock, Rachel Idowu, Samantha Jacob, Viola Kanu, Vijayakymar Kularetnam, Hannah Lynn, Katherine MacLennan, Elodie Mayo, Victoria Moore, Karishma Patel, Tahmid Rahman, Beatriz Ramirez, Julia Spence, LSW, Annalisea Whyte, Miranda Williams and Michah Wyatt.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
767 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-75134-7 (9789004751347)
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Victoria Showunmi is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Gender, Race and Identity at UCL IOE. Her interests are gender, identity, and race through the lens of Intersectionality focusing on leadership and the lived experience of Black women and girls. She develops fresh conceptual frameworks focusing on equity and social justice, especially the interplay between people and the sophistication of behaviours which lead to disengagement with the promotion of equality. Her work shows how culture and cultural background have the potential to disrupt power structures and lead to transformational change.