{"id":56592,"date":"2018-06-22T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56592"},"modified":"2018-06-22T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:55:43","slug":"what-it-is-like-for-a-black-student-to-go-to-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56592","title":{"rendered":"What it is like for a black student to go to Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cad952d2-215d-11e8-8d6c-a1920d9e946f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>What it is like for a black student to go to Cambridge<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Financial Times<\/a><br \/>\n2018-05-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Crox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rianna Croxford<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cad952d2-215d-11e8-8d6c-a1920d9e946f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"n-image\" role=\"presentation\" sizes=\"(min-width: 76.25em) 700px, (min-width: 61.25em) 620px, (min-width: 46.25em) 700px, calc(100vw - 20px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-us.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13898c40-63a8-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff?source=next&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;width=700 700w, https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-us.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13898c40-63a8-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff?source=next&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;width=500 500w, https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-us.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13898c40-63a8-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff?source=next&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;width=300 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Crox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rianna Croxford<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>Trailblazer discovers confidence sought by top universities can be learned<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am the first in my family to go to university and faced a lot of the obstacles students of colour encounter when aiming for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Oxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Educated at state school, I graduated from Cambridge last year as one of only seven women of mixed white and black heritage in my year of 3,371 undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the first black students to read English at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_Hall,_Cambridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity Hall college<\/a>, I had to deal with different degrees of racism day to day, as well as cultural challenges that my background had not prepared me for.<\/p>\n<p>I want to help make it easier for other students like myself to enter elite institutions that can offer a fast track to a successful career&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cad952d2-215d-11e8-8d6c-a1920d9e946f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailblazer discovers confidence sought by top universities can be learned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,8,10],"tags":[21475,28795,28794,18771],"class_list":["post-56592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-financial-times","tag-rianna-croxford","tag-the-financial-times","tag-university-of-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592","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=56592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56593,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions\/56593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}