Black bodies on cobbled streets - Understanding the experiences of Black British students at elite universities in the UK

英国黑人(包括黑人多种族学生)在英国精英高等教育机构中的代表性不足，这些机构的种族相当单一。然而，越来越多的媒体关注校园里的种族主义。尽管这一领域的研究有所增长，但关注英国黑人学生在精英高等教育机构的经历的社会学研究很少。因此，拟议的研究将以黑人英国学生的声音和经历为平台，并批判性地探索构成他们大学经历的制度和文化机制。这项研究旨在通过叙事和空间镜头来了解和探索英国黑人学生在种族相同的精英大学的经历。定性的方法将被用来做这件事。叙述性访谈将通过现有文献中概述的敌意和韧性主题来探索他们的经历，重点是了解精英大学英国黑人学生经历的异质性。它还将探索人们对亲密关系的看法。此外，还将进行人种学步行访谈，试图了解英国黑人学生是如何适应精英大学环境的。这些方法将通过分析性的人种学得到丰富，以更好地解决我作为一名在精英大学学习的英国黑人学生的定位，研究在精英大学学习的英国黑人学生。在2020年BLM运动之后，拟议的研究不仅是及时的，而且也有能力代表学院在非殖民化方面所作的承诺。

Black British (including Black multi-ethnic students) are underrepresented at elitehigher education institutions in the UK, which remain fairly ethnically homogenous.Yet increasing media attention spotlights the racism on campus. There is a paucityof sociological research focused on the experiences of Black British students at elitehigher education institutions, although there has been a growth in this area of study.The proposed research will thus aim platform the voices and experiences of BlackBritish students and critically explore the institutional and cultural mechanisms thatframe their university experience. The research aims to understand and explore theexperiences of Black British students at elite, ethnically homogenous, universities,through narrative and spatial lenses. Qualitative methods will be employed to dothis. Narrative interviews will explore their experiences through the themes ofhostility and resilience, as outlined in existing literature, with a focus onunderstanding the heterogeneity of the Black British student experience at eliteuniversities. It will also explore perceptions of allyship. This will be supplementedwith ethnographic walking interviews, which will seek to understand how BlackBritish students navigate the elite university environment. These methods will beenriched by an analytical autoethnography, to better address my positionality as aBlack British student studying at an elite university, researching Black Britishstudents studying at elite universities. The proposed research is not only timely, inthe wake of the 2020 BLM movement, but also has the ability to be representativeof pledges made by the academy in regard to decolonising.