Heidi Safia Mirza
Biographic Data
| ID | 226469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Safia Mirza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi Safia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mirza |
| SIGNATURE | MIRZA H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3682-173X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 424 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
She is internationally known for her pioneering intersectional research on race, gender, and identity in education and championing
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Black Bodies ‘Out of Place’ in Academic Spaces: Gender, Race, Faith and Culture in Post-race Times
Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
Empowering Muslim girls? Post-feminism, multiculturalism and the production of the ‘model’ Muslim female student in British schools
This article draws on an analysis of the narratives of teachers, policy-makers and young Muslim working-class women to explore how schools worked towards producing the model neoliberal middle-class female student. In two urban case-study schools, teaching staff encouraged the girls to actively challenge their culture through discourses grounded in western post-feminist ideals of female ‘empowerment’. The production of the compliant ‘model Muslim …
‘All the women are white, all the blacks are men – but some of us are brave’: Mapping the consequences of invisibility for black and minority ethnic women in Britain
Harvesting our collective intelligence”: Black British feminism in post-race times
The Branch on Which I Sit: Reflections on Black British Feminism
Respecting Difference: Race, Faith and Culture for Teacher Educators
Respecting Difference demonstrates how teacher educators in the UK and worldwide can attract, recruit and support black and minority ethnic students to become much-needed and valued future teachers and educational leaders. This accessible guide presents insights into the institutional and individual dilemmas and experiences of both tutors and students involved in Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses as they deal with issues of ra…
A second skin: Embodied intersectionality, transnationalism and narratives of identity and belonging among Muslim women in Britain
Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education: A roundtable discussion
This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled 'Regulation and Resistance', held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education. Notes 1. As described in the introduction t…
Plotting a history: Black and postcolonial feminisms in ‘new times’
Black feminist thought is grounded in an understanding of the nature of power and the way black/othered difference women’s is systematically organised through social relations. Postcolonial feminist approaches enable us to situate the silent ‘spectral’ power of colonial times as it appears in the production and reproduction of marginalised, racialised and gendered others in new contemporary times. This special issue brings the two perspectives to…
There is nothing 'honourable' about honour killings: Gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism
Race’, gender and educational desire
In the Government media, and public mind the relationship between ‘race’ 1 1. It is argued here that ‘race’ is not a real or measurable quality hence the use of quotation marks to denote its political and social construction. and education is overwhelmingly negative. In Britain when we talk of ‘Black and ethnic minorities in schools’ we think of underachievement, rising exclusions and low aspirations. However, research evidence shows racialized p…
Young, female and black
Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve. This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the labour market. In a comparative study of research an…
Spaces and Places of Black Educational Desire: Rethinking Black Supplementary Schools as a New Social Movement
Black supplementary schools, as organic grassroots organisations, are not simply a response to mainstream educational exclusion and poor provision, as they are so often described. They are far more radical and subversive than their quiet conformist exterior, indicating the presence of a covert social movement for educational change. In our small-scale, exploratory study of four black supplementary schools, we attempt to uncover their subjugated k…
Black Masculinities and Schooling: A black feminist response
(1999). Black Masculinities and Schooling: A black feminist response. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 137-147
Black British Feminism: A Reader
Race, Gender and IQ: The social consequence of a pseudo‐scientific discourse
Issues of differential intelligence among racial and gendered groups in society seem still to capture the popular imagination even now, 150 years since the rise of social Darwinism. Press reports of black people as less intelligent have been aroused recently in the UK by the publication of The Bell Curve in the USA. Similarly, reports that girls may be outperforming boys in examination results have invoked much media attention, reviving issues of…
Black British feminism: A Reader
A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodernist themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, "black" identity and social and cultural difference, this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed since the mid 1970s. Among the topics covered are: white feminism; political activism; "mixed race" identity; class differences; cultural hybridity; autobiography; black beauty; re…
Uncovering Genealogies of the Margins: Black supplementary schooling
In our small scale, exploratory study of four black supplementary schools, we adopted a genealogical approach. By uncovering the subjugated knowledges and hidden histories of black supplementary schools we found evidence of a female centred new social movement. Our analysis of black female agency in these organic grassroots organisations enabled us to interrogate the normative mainstream discourse on ‘race’ and education. The narratives of black …
The Dilemma of Socialist Feminism: A Case for Black Feminism
The purpose of this letter is not to go through the article 'Ethnocentrism and Socialist-Feminist Theory' with a fine tooth-comb, analysing the shortcomings of its content. I have closed the journal and put it away, so that what I have to say comes from the heart as a black woman a 'gut' reaction if you like. The paper's sole purpose seemed to be a self-indulgent exercise, exorcizing the guilt socialist-feminists feel about the myopia of their pa…
Absent again? No excuses: Black girls and the Swann Report
Short reviews
Nathan Glazer, ETHNIC DILEMMAS 1964–1982, Harvard University Press, 1983, 359 pp., US $20. Christopher Bagley and Gajendra K. Verma (eds), MULTICULTURAL CHILDHOOD: EDUCATION, ETHNICITY AND COGNITIVE STYLES, Gower Publishing Company, 1983, xvii+196 pp., £13.50. Verity Saifullah Khan (ed.), MINORITY FAMILIES IN BRITAIN: SUPPORT AND STRESS, Macmillan (for the Social Science Research Council, Studies in Ethnicity), 1979, 203pp. £4.95. Anthony D. Smit…
Black British feminism: A Reader
A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodernist themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, "black" identity and social and cultural difference, this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed since the mid 1970s. Among the topics covered are: white feminism; political activism; "mixed race" identity; class differences; cultural hybridity; autobiography; black beauty; re…
A second skin: Embodied intersectionality, transnationalism and narratives of identity and belonging among Muslim women in Britain
There is nothing 'honourable' about honour killings: Gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism
Spaces and Places of Black Educational Desire: Rethinking Black Supplementary Schools as a New Social Movement
Black supplementary schools, as organic grassroots organisations, are not simply a response to mainstream educational exclusion and poor provision, as they are so often described. They are far more radical and subversive than their quiet conformist exterior, indicating the presence of a covert social movement for educational change. In our small-scale, exploratory study of four black supplementary schools, we attempt to uncover their subjugated k…
Plotting a history: Black and postcolonial feminisms in ‘new times’
Black feminist thought is grounded in an understanding of the nature of power and the way black/othered difference women’s is systematically organised through social relations. Postcolonial feminist approaches enable us to situate the silent ‘spectral’ power of colonial times as it appears in the production and reproduction of marginalised, racialised and gendered others in new contemporary times. This special issue brings the two perspectives to…
Uncovering Genealogies of the Margins: Black supplementary schooling
In our small scale, exploratory study of four black supplementary schools, we adopted a genealogical approach. By uncovering the subjugated knowledges and hidden histories of black supplementary schools we found evidence of a female centred new social movement. Our analysis of black female agency in these organic grassroots organisations enabled us to interrogate the normative mainstream discourse on ‘race’ and education. The narratives of black …
Race’, gender and educational desire
In the Government media, and public mind the relationship between ‘race’ 1 1. It is argued here that ‘race’ is not a real or measurable quality hence the use of quotation marks to denote its political and social construction. and education is overwhelmingly negative. In Britain when we talk of ‘Black and ethnic minorities in schools’ we think of underachievement, rising exclusions and low aspirations. However, research evidence shows racialized p…
Empowering Muslim girls? Post-feminism, multiculturalism and the production of the ‘model’ Muslim female student in British schools
This article draws on an analysis of the narratives of teachers, policy-makers and young Muslim working-class women to explore how schools worked towards producing the model neoliberal middle-class female student. In two urban case-study schools, teaching staff encouraged the girls to actively challenge their culture through discourses grounded in western post-feminist ideals of female ‘empowerment’. The production of the compliant ‘model Muslim …
Harvesting our collective intelligence”: Black British feminism in post-race times
The Branch on Which I Sit: Reflections on Black British Feminism
Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education: A roundtable discussion
This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled 'Regulation and Resistance', held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education. Notes 1. As described in the introduction t…
Black Masculinities and Schooling: A black feminist response
(1999). Black Masculinities and Schooling: A black feminist response. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 137-147
Race, Gender and IQ: The social consequence of a pseudo‐scientific discourse
Issues of differential intelligence among racial and gendered groups in society seem still to capture the popular imagination even now, 150 years since the rise of social Darwinism. Press reports of black people as less intelligent have been aroused recently in the UK by the publication of The Bell Curve in the USA. Similarly, reports that girls may be outperforming boys in examination results have invoked much media attention, reviving issues of…
Absent again? No excuses: Black girls and the Swann Report
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Short reviews
Nathan Glazer, ETHNIC DILEMMAS 1964–1982, Harvard University Press, 1983, 359 pp., US $20. Christopher Bagley and Gajendra K. Verma (eds), MULTICULTURAL CHILDHOOD: EDUCATION, ETHNICITY AND COGNITIVE STYLES, Gower Publishing Company, 1983, xvii+196 pp., £13.50. Verity Saifullah Khan (ed.), MINORITY FAMILIES IN BRITAIN: SUPPORT AND STRESS, Macmillan (for the Social Science Research Council, Studies in Ethnicity), 1979, 203pp. £4.95. Anthony D. Smit…
The Dilemma of Socialist Feminism: A Case for Black Feminism
The purpose of this letter is not to go through the article 'Ethnocentrism and Socialist-Feminist Theory' with a fine tooth-comb, analysing the shortcomings of its content. I have closed the journal and put it away, so that what I have to say comes from the heart as a black woman a 'gut' reaction if you like. The paper's sole purpose seemed to be a self-indulgent exercise, exorcizing the guilt socialist-feminists feel about the myopia of their pa…
Absent again? No excuses: Black girls and the Swann Report
Black British feminism: A Reader
A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodernist themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, "black" identity and social and cultural difference, this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed since the mid 1970s. Among the topics covered are: white feminism; political activism; "mixed race" identity; class differences; cultural hybridity; autobiography; black beauty; re…
Uncovering Genealogies of the Margins: Black supplementary schooling
In our small scale, exploratory study of four black supplementary schools, we adopted a genealogical approach. By uncovering the subjugated knowledges and hidden histories of black supplementary schools we found evidence of a female centred new social movement. Our analysis of black female agency in these organic grassroots organisations enabled us to interrogate the normative mainstream discourse on ‘race’ and education. The narratives of black …
Race, Gender and IQ: The social consequence of a pseudo‐scientific discourse
Issues of differential intelligence among racial and gendered groups in society seem still to capture the popular imagination even now, 150 years since the rise of social Darwinism. Press reports of black people as less intelligent have been aroused recently in the UK by the publication of The Bell Curve in the USA. Similarly, reports that girls may be outperforming boys in examination results have invoked much media attention, reviving issues of…
Black Masculinities and Schooling: A black feminist response
(1999). Black Masculinities and Schooling: A black feminist response. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 137-147
Black British Feminism: A Reader
Spaces and Places of Black Educational Desire: Rethinking Black Supplementary Schools as a New Social Movement
Black supplementary schools, as organic grassroots organisations, are not simply a response to mainstream educational exclusion and poor provision, as they are so often described. They are far more radical and subversive than their quiet conformist exterior, indicating the presence of a covert social movement for educational change. In our small-scale, exploratory study of four black supplementary schools, we attempt to uncover their subjugated k…
Young, female and black
Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve. This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the labour market. In a comparative study of research an…
Race’, gender and educational desire
In the Government media, and public mind the relationship between ‘race’ 1 1. It is argued here that ‘race’ is not a real or measurable quality hence the use of quotation marks to denote its political and social construction. and education is overwhelmingly negative. In Britain when we talk of ‘Black and ethnic minorities in schools’ we think of underachievement, rising exclusions and low aspirations. However, research evidence shows racialized p…
There is nothing 'honourable' about honour killings: Gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism
Plotting a history: Black and postcolonial feminisms in ‘new times’
Black feminist thought is grounded in an understanding of the nature of power and the way black/othered difference women’s is systematically organised through social relations. Postcolonial feminist approaches enable us to situate the silent ‘spectral’ power of colonial times as it appears in the production and reproduction of marginalised, racialised and gendered others in new contemporary times. This special issue brings the two perspectives to…
Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education: A roundtable discussion
This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled 'Regulation and Resistance', held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education. Notes 1. As described in the introduction t…
Respecting Difference: Race, Faith and Culture for Teacher Educators
Respecting Difference demonstrates how teacher educators in the UK and worldwide can attract, recruit and support black and minority ethnic students to become much-needed and valued future teachers and educational leaders. This accessible guide presents insights into the institutional and individual dilemmas and experiences of both tutors and students involved in Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses as they deal with issues of ra…
A second skin: Embodied intersectionality, transnationalism and narratives of identity and belonging among Muslim women in Britain
The Branch on Which I Sit: Reflections on Black British Feminism
Harvesting our collective intelligence”: Black British feminism in post-race times
‘All the women are white, all the blacks are men – but some of us are brave’: Mapping the consequences of invisibility for black and minority ethnic women in Britain
Black Bodies ‘Out of Place’ in Academic Spaces: Gender, Race, Faith and Culture in Post-race Times
Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
Empowering Muslim girls? Post-feminism, multiculturalism and the production of the ‘model’ Muslim female student in British schools
This article draws on an analysis of the narratives of teachers, policy-makers and young Muslim working-class women to explore how schools worked towards producing the model neoliberal middle-class female student. In two urban case-study schools, teaching staff encouraged the girls to actively challenge their culture through discourses grounded in western post-feminist ideals of female ‘empowerment’. The production of the compliant ‘model Muslim …
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
She is internationally known for her pioneering intersectional research on race, gender, and identity in education and championing
Gender Studies (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (8 works) · Black feminism (7 works) · Feminism (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works)