Inspired by black students at Harvard, who were in turn inspired by the final ringing line – "I, too, am America" – of a 1926 civil liberties poem, a group of black and minority ethnic students at Oxford has launched the website I, too, am Oxford.
Nearly 70 students have so far posed for photographs holding up a sample of some of the attitudes they have met at the university ("How did you get in to Oxford? Jamaicans don't study;" "Oh, you're from Ghana ... My cousin's nanny is from Kenya.")
While more "students of colour" are now studying at Oxford than ever before, the site says: "Students in their daily encounters in Oxford are made to feel different and othered from the Oxford community." There are still "issues to be discussed".
A university spokesman said Oxford was "committed to listening to our students and establishing what more can be done to ensure a fully inclusive experience" for all of them.
