A Black Boy at Eton

A Black Boy at Eton

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2022-02-03

Type: BOOK

Written at just 21, this is a deeply personal, revelatory account of the racism he endured during his time as a student at the prestigious institution.

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Afro-Saxon

Afro-Saxon

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04

Type: BOOK

'Afro-Saxon' is the follow-up to 'A Black Boy at Eton.' a ground-breaking book displaying the deep psychological effects of colonialism and racism in the English public school system

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Settlers

Settlers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-10-13

Type: BOOK

writes Okwonga, at one juncture, after an old Eton friend has shared a fabricated school days rumour that presents him as an 'angry Black guy'. 'If people thought I was that guy, I may as well have gone and been that guy anyway.

Genre Social Science

I Heard What You Said

I Heard What You Said

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2022-06-09

Type: BOOK

A Black Teacher, A White System Jeffrey Boakye ... One of Them : An Eton College Memoir ( Unbound : 2021 ) ; David Shariatmadari , ' Musa Okwonga : “ Boys don't learn shamelessness at Eton , it is where they perfect it ” , Guardian ( 10 ...

Genre Biography & Autobiography

The Dust Must Settle

The Dust Must Settle

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-12-10

Type: BOOK

“See, no one, no institution, in the whole of the United Kingdom, can get neither Marie Richmond nor me, Sir Billy Patterson, imprisoned, or excommunicated, because we're on the verge of sending two brilliant black boys to Eton College, ...

Genre Fiction

On This Day in Politics

On This Day in Politics

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Published: 2022-10-06

Type: BOOK

The 'Eton Mission' scheme took boys from Hackney Wick in east London from as early as 1880 until 1971. Nowadays 20 per cent of the boys receive financial support. It wasn't until 1969, however, that a black boy graduated from Eton.

Genre History

St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Type: BOOK

All Eton boys are loyal to the college - pump ; they think there is no such water as that anywhere else in the world . ... I suppose , " said the old gray - bearded man in the library , a tall , thin , old man , with a black velvet ...

Genre Children's literature

St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Type: BOOK

The great school yard is the center of everything at Eton . Perhaps a lesson is just over , and two or three hundred boys are gathSerhiper ET ered in little groups around King Henry's statue , making plans for the afternoon— all wearing ...

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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys

Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-01-25

Type: BOOK

188 , the remains of a black boy , 292– 291 - pioture of , at Eton College , alluded to , 806 , 818 , 836 , 476 ; ül . ü . 869 8 , 72 , 78 , 80 , 110 , 120 , 129 , 166 , Venner , Dr. , tomb of , iii . 466 160 ; iv .

Genre Fiction

Grainger Journal Vol. 1

Grainger Journal Vol. 1

Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre

Published: 2011

Type: BOOK

(Young boys at Eton, for example, wore a short jacket with black waistcoat and striped trousers.)56 The next tier down wore the all-yellow 'canary' suits. In 1833, in Port Arthur and Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen's Land, the standing ...

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