Hashi Mohamed is a barrister and broadcaster based in London, England.He arrived in Britain aged nine, as an unaccompanied child refugee. He attended some of Britain’s worst schools and was raised exclusively on state benefits. Yet today he is a successful barrister, with an Oxford degree and a CV that includes numerous appearances on the BBC.
In his debut book People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain, Mohamed explores what his own experience can tell us about social mobility in Britain today.
At the Waterstones blog, he tagged five notable books on social mobility, Including:
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony AppiahRead about the other entries on the list.
Appiah’s book was an important book when attempting to make sense of identity, who you are and as you grow in a society whereyou may not feel completely at home at first.
The problem, as the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah points out, is not that there is anything ‘wrong with cherishing your children’. But when we live in a world in which parents have access to vastly unequal resources, we must confront the fact that this instinct, however natural and understandable, cannot reign unchecked without harming others.
When the Ghanaian-British professor of philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah found himself adjusting his accent in an American direction when telling New York taxi drivers where he wanted to go, he saw it as a natural instinct to make himself easier to understand to people who were often, like him, immigrants in America.
--Marshal Zeringue
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