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They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up Audiobook by Eternity Martis
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 514697
Title: They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
Author: Eternity Martis
Narrator: Eternity Martis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:46:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family
Summary:
A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class, and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of selfand a support network of other women of colour. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 514697
Title: They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
Author: Eternity Martis
Narrator: Eternity Martis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:46:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family
Summary:
A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class, and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of selfand a support network of other women of colour. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.
Contact: [email protected]