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Subnormal: a British scandal.

Medium Planet eStream
Class/Location 305.89609 SUB
Imprint BBC1: 20/05/2021
Length 60 minutes
Notes

An examination of one of the biggest scandals in the history of British education: in the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of Black British children were wrongly labelled as 'educationally subnormal' by the state and sent to schools for children deemed to have low intelligence. This decision had a devastating impact on their lives.

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Keywords
Black history     Black History collection     Britain, 1960s     Britain, 1970s     Education     Institutional racism     Racial prejudice     Racism     School system     Special schools    
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