At student club nights in my first few weeks of university, more than once I was asked whether I had any drugs to sell. It’s true that Oxford was — and remains — very White, but race didn’t fully explain it. There were plenty of other young South Asian men. What made them so different to 18-year-old me? It slowly became clear that it was blazers, chinos, boat shoes and, yes, Oxford shirts.
At student club nights in my first few weeks of university, more than once I was asked whether I had any drugs to sell. It’s true that Oxford was — and remains — very White, but race didn’t fully explain it. There were plenty of other young South Asian men. What made them so different to 18-year-old me? It slowly became clear that it was blazers, chinos, boat shoes and, yes, Oxford shirts.
