They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up - Eternity Martis Audiobook

Written by Eternity Martis
Read by Eternity Martis
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
Author: Eternity Martis
Reader: Eternity Martis
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-05-05
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Duration: 7 hrs 46 mins
ISBN: 9781662084102
Subjects: Biography

File Information
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Media Format: M4B (AAC)
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 428 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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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 self-and 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.