Clara Marguerite Christian
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Clara Marguerite Christian
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Clara Marguerite Christian, born in Dominica, was the first black woman to study at the University of Edinburgh and went on to be a "highly respected" mother of six. Her university experience speaks to the "double jeopardy" of "navigating both race and gender within whiteness", embodying "the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility" of being a black woman in Edinburgh during the 1910s. She married fellow student Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, and in the 1920s moved with him to Bermuda, where he
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First black woman to study at University of Edinburgh (1895–1964)
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2023-12-14T05:00:58Z
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