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Building on the seminal Living Black at University project, this book exposes the ongoing racial inequalities in higher education. Despite institutional commitments to diversity, Black students and staff continue to face exclusion, discrimination and systemic barriers.
Edited by Dr Nick Cartwright, ’Teleola Cartwright and Osaro Otobo, the book brings together voices from students, academics, non-academic staff and activists. It explores how racism shapes campus life, from microaggressions to institutional policies, and examines its impact on mental health, belonging and career progression.
Blending personal narratives with critical analysis, Living Black at university challenges universities to move beyond tokenistic inclusion towards genuine anti-racist transformation. Urgent and uncompromising, it calls for higher education to centre Black voices, dismantle systemic racism and create spaces of true equity and justice.
Dr Nick Cartwright is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leeds
‘Teleola Cartwright is Founder and Director of LiberateUs
Osaro Otobo is Founder and Director of Make Diversity Count
Introduction
Dr Nick Cartwright, ‘Teleola Cartwright and Osaro Otobo
Section 1: Structural violence and racialised harm in higher education
1: Cites of violence: Universities, civic responsibility and the Black community
Dr Nick Cartwright and Dwayne Hutchinson
2: Culture wars, the Sewell report and race equality
Professor Andrew Pilkington
3: The anti-racist university myth: A call for transparency
Osaro Otobo and Mia Liyanage
4: Exploring the mental health challenges and coping strategies adopted by Black students in UK universities
Dr Patrice Seuwou, Dr Yaz Iyabo Osho and Christina Dzineku
Section 2: Praxis and possibility – Towards an anti-racist university
5: Anti-racist practices in student accommodation
Rebecca O’Hare
6: White spaces as part of an exclusionary pedagogy? The Creative Arts University
Professor Samantha Broadhead and Dr Laura da Costa
7: Working Black in Ivory Towers: How Black Staff Navigate White Space
‘Teleola Cartwright
8: We must value Race Equity work; we must value EDI. An argument for disaggregation
Dr Nick Cartwright
Section 3: Lived experience and embodied knowledge
9: The Access to Activism Pipeline: When Outreach Succeeds but Inclusion Fails
Mia Liyanage
10: Mutual Interview: A conversation on solidarity, identity and resistance
Mia Liyanage and Osaro Otobo
11: Curated Case Studies
Dr Nick Cartwright, ‘Teleola Cartwright, Osaro Otobo, Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose SAN and Professor Omolade Olomola
12: Vignettes and Personal Reflections
Osaro Otobo, Dwayne Hutchinson, Dr Nick Cartwright and Rebecca O’hare
Conclusion: There’s no place like justice!
Dr Nick Cartwright, ‘Teleola Cartwright and Osaro Otobo
Index