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The Guardian - UK
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Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open

Bernardine Evaristo, photographed at her home: she wears black trousers and an orange and white checked shirt, and is sitting on a bright pink sofa with orange and patterned cushions in front of a white wall which has, behind her head, a shelf with two tall white vases and two smaller vases, one red and one yellow. There are three pictures on the wall; two are tinted vintage photographic portraits of Black people, one female, and one male.
Bernardine Evaristo described the MA in Black British literature as ‘an essential course’. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

Goldsmiths, University of London, will keep its Black British literature course open after a backlash from students and writers including the Booker prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo.

The decision is a reversal of April’s announcement that the master’s degree in Black British literature, alongside other courses, would be axed as part of a cost-cutting programme affecting 132 academic jobs across 11 departments.

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