Meer provides a fascinating look at the ways in which racism, colonialism, class, and religion shaped educational systems, as well as the reception of Black students, in America, Britain, and Britain's colonial sites in Africa.
Sarah Meer is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. Her previous books are Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s, and the co-edited volume Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture.