Enter: George Bridgetower Essay Prize

DEADLINE: monday 3 april

All current Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to enter the George Bridgetower Essay Prize, hosted in partnership with the Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry and the Alexander Crummell Fund.

With a prize of £1,000, essays must be a maximum of 4000 words inclusive of footnotes and further citations. The essay must be written in English. The essay may be a piece of work already produced for an entrant’s degree, but students should declare this as part of their submission and are asked to declare that the essay is all their own work.

The essay titles from which to select are:

A)          As suggested by the Legacies of Enslavement Report, "intellectual and scientific justification for racism, including those developed at Cambridge, have long played a significant role in underpinning and supporting everyday racist assumptions of racial inequality and particularly of Black inferiority."

To what extent does Cambridge, as an academic institution, challenge the myth of Black inferiority?

B)           The Legacies of Enslavement Report states "intellectual and scientific justification for racism, including those developed at Cambridge, have long played a significant role in underpinning and supporting everyday racist assumptions of racial inequality and particularly of Black inferiority."

To what extent is an academic institution like Cambridge implicated in the erasure and undervaluing of Black existence and knowledge-making in spaces like Cambridge?

Submissions are accepted up to noon on Monday 3rd April 2023 via email to gbesubmissions@admin.cam.ac.uk. 

*This is an external opportunity. Always refer to the source for more information, but if we can assist, get in touch!