Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls

20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?

Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780008342654
• eBook ISBN: 9780008342630
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls  features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British writers.

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Introduction from Yomi

1. Julian Abagond, ‘The Three Bears Effect’, Abagond [blog] (19/11/2010) <https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/the-three-bears-effect/>

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2. Aiyo, Black British Girl [blog] <http://blackbritishgirl.blogspot.com/>

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How I Learned to be a Shy Loud Black Girl

1. ‘2011 Census analysis: Ethnicity and religion of the non-UK born population in England and Wales: 2011’, Office for National Statistics, (18 June 2015) <https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/2011censusanalysisethnicityandreligionofthenonukbornpopulationinenglandandwales/2015-06-18>

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2. Greg Hurst, ‘More than half of Britons secretly admit they are shy’, The Times, (11 November 2019) <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-than-half-of-britons-secretly-admit-they-are-shy-379vl66sr>

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3. ‘Shyness and social phobia’, Royal College of Psychiatrists, <https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/problems-disorders/shyness-and-social-phobia<

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4. Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, ‘Less innocent, more adult: the unfair perceptions that haunt young black girls’, Guardian, (24 October 2017) <https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/oct/24/less-innocent-more-adult-the-unfair-perceptions-that-haunt-young-black-girls>

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5. Neelam Tailor, ‘This week a London police break a black girl’s tooth and the UK sees its first black woman history professor’, gal-dem, (4 November 2019) <http://gal-dem.com/race-review-a-black-girl-was-attacked-by-london-police-and-the-uk-sees-its-first-black-woman-history-professor/>

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6. Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, ‘Joy Morgan can be laid to rest, but more needs to be uncovered about her murder’, gal-dem, (11 October 2019) <http://gal-dem.com/joy-morgan-can-be-laid-to-rest-but-more-needs-to-be-uncovered-about-her-murder/>

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7. ‘Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study’, Georgetown Law, (15 May 2019) <https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/research-confirms-that-black-girls-feel-the-sting-of-adultification-bias-identified-in-earlier-georgetown-law-study/>

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8. Evelyn Marinoff, ‘Confident People Found Happiest in the World’, Evelyn Marinoff [blog], (28 January 2018) <http://www.evelynmarinoff.com/confident-people-found-happiest-people-world/>

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The ‘Shuri’ Effect: The Age of #Blackexcellence, the Falsehood of Black Mediocrity and the Absence of the Black Middle

1. Ezra Klein, ‘Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the allure of race science’, Vox, (27 March 2018) <https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/15695060/sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq-forbidden-knowledge-podcast-bell-curve>

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2. The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu, BBC, (8 October 2018)

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3. A. Moore, ‘11 Ancient African Writing Systems That Demolish the Myth That Black People Were Illiterate’, Atlanta Black Star, (8 August 2014) <https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/08/08/11-ancient-african-writing-systems-demolish-myth-black-people-illiterate/4/>

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4. Bill Desowitz, ‘“Black Panther”: How Wakanda Got a Written Language as Part of its Afrofuturism’, IndieWire, (22 February 2018) <https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/black-panther-wakanda-written-language-ryan-coogler-afrofuturism-1201931252/>

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5. ‘Ramarni Wilfred tops Bill Gates and Einstein with his IQ’, BBC News, (9 January 2019) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-46788534/ramarni-wilfred-tops-bill-gates-and-einstein-with-his-iq>

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6. ‘Civilizing Mission’, Wikipedia, ≤https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilizing_mission≥

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7. ed. Claire Alexander and Jason Arday, ‘Aiming Higher: Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy’, Runnymede, (February 2015) <https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/Aiming%20Higher.pdf>

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8. ‘Oxford was more likely to offer a place to the best black candidates last year – but its race problem is more complicated than that’, Channel 4, (24 May 2018) <https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-oxford-is-actually-more-likely-to-offer-a-place-to-the-best-black-candidates>

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9. ‘Anti-knife branding in chicken shops ‘racist or stupid’, says MP’, Guardian, (14 August 2019) <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/14/anti-knife-branding-in-chicken-shops-called-stupid-by-mps>

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10. Haroon Siddique, ‘Minority ethnic Britons face “shocking” job discrimination’, Guardian, (17 January 2019), <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/17/minority-ethnic-britons-face-shocking-job-discrimination>

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11. In its January 2018 report ‘Delivering through Diversity’ McKinsey & Company found that companies in the top quartile for ethnic and cultural diversity on their executive teams were 33 per cent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the bottom quartile. ‘Delivering through Diversity’, McKinsey, (January 2018) <https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/delivering-through-diversity>

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword: Bernardine Evaristo
• Introduction: Elizabeth Uviebinené
• Introduction: Yomi Adegoke
• Abiola Oni
• Finding Myself In Britain
• Candice Brathwaite
• To Be Seen and Heard, That’s Where Power Is …
• Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
• How I Learned to be a Shy Loud Black Girl
• Elisabeth Fapuro
• The ‘Shuri’ Effect: The Age of #Blackexcellence, the Falsehood of Black Mediocrity and the Absence of the Black Middle
• Eunice Olumide
• Programmed: Transferred Representations and Interchangeable States
• Fiona Rutherford
• Why It’s Time to Get Your Finance in Formation
• Jendella Benson
• Respect On Our Name: From Othered To Iconic and Beyond
• Kuba Shand-Baptiste
• Eating Britain’s Racism
• Kuchenga
• I Love Us For Real: A call for a radical reconfiguration of black love from a black trans woman’s perspective
• Nao
• We Were Made For These Times
• Paula Akpan
• The Quandary of Securing the Bag
• Phoebe Parke
• The Meghan Markle Effect Made Mixed Race Identity a Hot Topic, But Are We Any Further Forward?
• Princess Peace
• As Loud as Lagos Traffic
• Selina Thompson
• A Crocus Ruminates: Thirty Thoughts on Turning Thirty
• Sheila Atim
• What Happens Next?
• Siana Bangura
• ‘Who built it and with what wood?’: A Black Feminist 10-point (ish) Programme for Transformation
• Sophia Thakur
• A Poem for Babygirl
• Temi Mwale
• Building Peace: The Case for Centring Healing in our Approach to Address Violence
• Toni-Blaze Ibekwe
• 2020 and Beyond – The Black Woman V2.0
• Yemisi Adegoke
• Homecoming
• Contributors’ biographies
• Footnotes
• References
• About the Author
• Also by Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke
• About the Publisher