Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in this forensic and hard-hitting exploration of knowledge, power and privilege.
‘Debate done with absolute verve, with eloquence and generosity’ CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, author of Damascus
‘Fascinating, eye-opening . . . a sharp wake-up call’ FLEX MAMI / LILLIAN AHENKAN, author of The Success Experiment
‘Thoughtful, surprising and exquisitely written. Bri Lee once again challenges us to confront the structures that shape, and restrict, our understanding of the world.’ MADDISON CONNAUGHTON, editor of The Saturday Paper
In 2018 Bri Lee’s brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the ‘stream of gold and silver’ that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there. The question that forms in her mind drives the following two years of conversations and investigations: who gets to be smart?
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