Gender intersects with ethnicity, an increasingly complex term combining ‘race’, religion, language, nationality, regional identity and other factors – partly chosen and partly ascribed. Our ethnicities are increasingly hybrid.

There are inequalities in educational outcomes by ethnicity. For example, in the UK African-Carribean students generally do worse in examinations than those from other backgrounds and are more likely to get excluded. However, research shows that even groups that achieve relatively well in the education system, such as British Chinese young people, also experience racism. 

The resources below contain research and resources which focus on the ways that the educational experiences of young men and women and influenced by and influence their ethnicities.

Useful Links

Mutliverse: UK collection of resources on teaching and diversity 

Runnymede’s Belonging project: short films by diverse young people living in Lisbon, Paris and London

Bangladeshi girls in the UK and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

UK government Ethnic Minority Achievement site

Further Reading

Archer, L. & Francis, B. (2007) Understanding minority ethnic achievement: Race, gender, class and ‘success’. Abingdon, Routledge.

Connolly, P. (1998) Racism, gender identities, and young children: Social relations in a multi-ethnic, inner-city primary school. London, Routledge.

Gillborn, D. and Mirza, H. S. (2000) Educational inequality: Mapping race, class and gender. London, Ofsted.

Mirza, H. S. (1992) Young, female and black. London, Routledge.

Rollock, N. (2007) Why black girls don’t matter: Deconstructing gendered and racialised discourses of academic success in an inner city school. British Journal of Learning Support, 4.