{"id":48902,"date":"2016-10-31T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48902"},"modified":"2017-03-22T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:53:21","slug":"mixed-blessings-from-a-cambridge-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48902","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

ELIZAN Publishing
\nSeptember 2016
\n300 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780995526808<\/p>\n

Elizabeth N. Anionwu<\/strong><\/a>, CBE, Emeritus Professor of Nursing
\nUniversity of West London<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Memoirs of Professor Elizabeth N Anionwu CBE FRCN<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreword by Malorie Blackman OBE<\/a>,\u00a0Writer & former Children\u2019s Laureate<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1947 and a clever, sheltered Catholic girl of Liverpool<\/a> Irish working class heritage is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family\u00a0to go to university \u2013 and then she discovers that she\u2019s pregnant. The father is also a student at Cambridge, studying law. And he is black.<\/p>\n

The fallout from their affair is dramatic, but despite pressure to give up her baby for adoption, the young woman has other ideas. Their daughter Elizabeth grows up to be a Professor of Nursing at the University of West London \u2013 but there are many twists and turns along the way. What does it mean to be mixed race in Britain<\/a>? Who are you when told that your origins are \u2018half Nigerian, half Irish\u2019? Who are you, growing up as a child in care for nine years and without knowing your father?<\/p>\n

This incredible story charts a roller coaster journey from the English Midlands<\/a> to Nigeria<\/a>, and from suburban health visiting to political activism and radical nursing. At the same time it brings social history to life \u2013 think \u2018Philomena<\/em><\/a> meets Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> Dreams From My Father<\/em><\/a>\u2019! This is a heart-warming and inspiring book about childhood, searching for identity, family, friendship, hope and what makes us who we are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 1947 and a clever, sheltered Catholic girl of Liverpool Irish working class heritage is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family\u00a0to go to university \u2013 and then she discovers that she\u2019s pregnant. The father is also a student at Cambridge, studying law. And he is black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,10],"tags":[16594,24896,24895,24897],"class_list":["post-48902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-elizabeth-anionwu","tag-elizabeth-n-anionwu","tag-elizabeth-nneka-anionwu","tag-elizan-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52766,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48902\/revisions\/52766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}