Chapter 17: The Cost That Comes With Not Caring: An Autoethnographic Critical Reflection of Race Equity in Education

Unlike the other contributions to this book, this chapter is one that tells a personal journey of an accounting academic working in race equity in academia in England in the United Kingdom. I am a cisgender woman racialised as Black and of African and Caribbean heritage. I was born and educated in England. I am from a low-income family, whose parents relied on the State for housing and financial support, for all my childhood. On leaving University, I trained, qualified and worked as a chartered certified accountant for 10 years, serendipitously starting my academic career 12 years ago. I feel it is important for me to explain some details of my life history, in order that you, the reader, understand my perspectives and insights of my lived experience that I share with you in this chapter.