Join us as we welcome some brilliant scholars at Oxford, currently supported by the Black Academic Futures scholarship. Amunet Boafo and Michelle Codrington-Rogers will each deliver a short paper on some of their current and upcoming work, welcoming feedback, questions, and advice from the Race & Resistance community. After both papers, we will host a Q&A and an opportunity for feedback.
Black Workers, “Mestizo” City: Constructing ethno-racial identities across formal and informal labour markets in Bogotá, Colombia
Amunet Boafo is currently pursuing a DPhil in International Development as a Black Academic Futures Scholar. Her research explores the effects of both informal and formal labour market interactions on ethnic self-expression amongst urban Afro-descendant communities in Bogotá, Colombia. She has previous experience living and working in the UK, Japan and Colombia, where she has spent time working at several NGOs, including a feminist organisation in Bogotá supporting women victims of gender-based violence and displacement and a children’s foundation employing art and music as tools to combat the influence of local drug-trafficking gangs. Prior to starting her PhD, Amunet spent several months working at an NGO based in Tokyo focussed on addressing pressing issues such as rapid urbanisation and rural depopulation using community-based solutions.
Bringing together digital and social justice: how ethnic identities and educational aspirations of Black and Dual Heritage pupils are shaped by online communities and spaces.
Michelle Codrington-Rogers has spent 20 years in the classroom as a qualified citizenship teacher at a large secondary school in Oxford. Michelle is also an activist within the trade union movement and has sat on a number of committees including Black workers, LGBT, Women’s and the General Council. She is currently completing an MSC-Education – digital and social change at the Oxford University Department of Education.
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