| Description | Tracks 1 - 12: Actuality with a number of adults originally from the West Indies, and Charles Parker. The group discuss the standard of education in comprehensive schools, and their fears and concerns for the future careers of their children after being disadvantaged in the education system. Ms Carty talks about racism in the nursing profession, and how difficult it is for black women to get nursing jobs in Britain with reference to her own experience in the West Midlands. The group discuss the effect that having lost contact with ancestral African and also Caribbean heritage has on African Caribbean youth. The discussion also covers problems that African Caribbean youth face when leaving school and trying to get a job compared with white young people. The adults consider the identity that they feel that the education and employment system force the young people into. One of the men talks about the need for black teachers for role models for the children, as well as a need for African Caribbean history to be taught in schools to both black and white children. The group describe the English education system as being a 'myth' for black children. The term 'West Indian' is discussed in terms of what it means.
Total: 32.57 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0877880 |