{"id":60258,"date":"2020-10-31T23:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60258"},"modified":"2020-10-31T23:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:06:56","slug":"in-black-and-white-a-young-barristers-story-of-race-and-class-in-a-broken-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60258","title":{"rendered":"In Black and White: A Young Barrister\u2019s Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Black and White: A Young Barrister\u2019s Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Endeavour<\/a> (an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group<\/a>)
\n2020-08-13
\n272 pages
\n5.67 x 1.18 x 8.58 inches
\nPaperback ISBN-13: 9781913068301
\nHardback ISBN-13 9781913068288<\/p>\n

Alexandra Wilson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Alexandra Wilson was a teenager when her dear family friend Ayo was stabbed on his way home from football. Ayo\u2019s death changed Alexandra. She felt compelled to enter the legal profession in search of answers.<\/p>\n

As a junior criminal and family law barrister, Alexandra finds herself navigating a world and a set of rules designed by a privileged few. A world in which fellow barristers sigh with relief when a racist judge retires: \u2018I\u2019ve got a black kid today and he would have had no hope\u2019.<\/p>\n

In her debut book, In Black and White<\/em>, Alexandra re-creates the tense courtroom scenes, the heart-breaking meetings with teenage clients, and the moments of frustration and triumph that make up a young barrister\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Alexandra shows us how it feels to defend someone who hates the colour of your skin, or someone you suspect is guilty. We see what it is like for children coerced into county line drug deals<\/a> and the damage that can be caused when we criminalise teenagers.<\/p>\n

Alexandra\u2019s account of what she has witnessed as a young mixed-race barrister is in equal parts shocking, compelling, confounding and powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her debut book, In “Black and White,” Alexandra re-creates the tense courtroom scenes, the heart-breaking meetings with teenage clients, and the moments of frustration and triumph that make up a young barrister\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1467,8,17,23674,10],"tags":[31191,4250,81,31192],"class_list":["post-60258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-social-justice","category-uk","tag-alexandra-wilson","tag-endeavour","tag-england","tag-octopus-publishing-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60258","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=60258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60261,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60258\/revisions\/60261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}