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As a naturalised British African-American woman working in the EDI space within higher education, this book and Showunmi's ideas provide a much needed analysis, language and toolkit for the often unarticulated, unacknowledged, and invisible experiences of everyday racism, classism and sexism faced by Black women. This work sees Black women in western society that habitually conflates Blackness with maleness and puts a finger on our common experiences as Black women/girls while being particular about experience of Black British women and girls which has been missing from British feminist literature. I will be using the ideas in this transformational work personally and to support the pastoral work I do among the BME staff and students at the University of Oxford. The ideas in this book reach out beyond the UK borders and is a welcome addition to the Black feminist canon started by Anna Julia Cooper and progressed by bell hooks, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alice Walker.--Daphne Cunningham, University of Oxford Sophisticated Racism is essential reading. At once confronting, tender and sophisticated, the book centers Black women's lived experiences in a manner that critiques both national policy and everyday racism. The book is beautifully written, with Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin sharing personal trauma and triumph while at the same time offering insights that researchers, policy makers and everyday people seeking better understanding of race, racism and race relations will find helpful.--Jeffrey S. Brooks, Head of School, Curtin University School of Education

Sophisticated Racism is essential reading. At once confronting, tender and sophisticated, the book centers Black women's lived experiences in a manner that critiques both national policy and everyday racism. The book is beautifully written, with Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin sharing personal trauma and triumph while at the same time offering insights that researchers, policy makers and everyday people seeking better understanding of race, racism and race relations will find helpful.--Jeffrey S. Brooks, Curtin University School of Education This book provides a much needed analysis, language and toolkit for the often unarticulated, unacknowledged, and invisible experiences of everyday racism, classism and sexism faced by Black women. This work sees Black women in western society that habitually conflates Blackness with maleness and puts a finger on our common experiences as Black women/girls while being particular about experience of Black British women and girls which has been missing from British feminist literature. The ideas in this book reach out beyond the UK borders and is a welcome addition to the Black feminist canon started by Anna Julia Cooper and progressed by bell hooks, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alice Walker.--Daphne Cunningham, University of Oxford

This book provides a much needed analysis, language and toolkit for the often unarticulated, unacknowledged, and invisible experiences of everyday racism, classism and sexism faced by Black women. This work sees Black women in western society that habitually conflates Blackness with maleness and puts a finger on our common experiences as Black women/girls while being particular about experience of Black British women and girls which has been missing from British feminist literature. The ideas in this book reach out beyond the UK borders and is a welcome addition to the Black feminist canon started by Anna Julia Cooper and progressed by bell hooks, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alice Walker.--Daphne Cunningham, University of Oxford Sophisticated Racism is essential reading. At once confronting, tender and sophisticated, the book centers Black women's lived experiences in a manner that critiques both national policy and everyday racism. The book is beautifully written, with Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin sharing personal trauma and triumph while at the same time offering insights that researchers, policy makers and everyday people seeking better understanding of race, racism and race relations will find helpful.--Jeffrey S. Brooks, Head of School, Curtin University School of Education

Sophisticated Racism is essential reading. At once confronting, tender and sophisticated, the book centers Black women's lived experiences in a manner that critiques both national policy and everyday racism. The book is beautifully written, with Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin sharing personal trauma and triumph while at the same time offering insights that researchers, policy makers and everyday people seeking better understanding of race, racism and race relations will find helpful. --Jeffrey S. Brooks, Curtin University School of Education This book provides a much needed analysis, language and toolkit for the often unarticulated, unacknowledged, and invisible experiences of everyday racism, classism and sexism faced by Black women. This work ""sees"" Black women in western society that habitually conflates Blackness with maleness and puts a finger on our common experiences as Black women/girls while being particular about experience of Black British women and girls which has been missing from British feminist literature. The ideas in this book reach out beyond the UK borders and is a welcome addition to the Black feminist canon started by Anna Julia Cooper and progressed by bell hooks, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alice Walker. --Daphne Cunningham, University of Oxford

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Dr. Victoria Showunmi is associate professor at University College London in the Faculty of Institute of Education. Dr. Carol Tomlin is visiting fellow at the University Leeds.

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