Paper short abstract:

This paper draws on personal experience of being a working-class anthropology student. Through a critical reflection of diversity, I argue that through the notion of intersectionality we are able to avoid the trap of tokenised diversity.

Paper long abstract:

This paper draws on personal experience of being a working-class anthropology student. Through a critical reflection of moments of unease, affects and at times direct classism experienced, I situate myself, a self-professed 'scholarship boy', within the call for diversity in anthropology. By thinking through the notion of intersectionality, and reflexive practices within the discipline, we can avoid the trap of tokenised diversity. Without such engagement, we do an injustice to both ourselves in the discipline, those students that are newly entering, and those we engage with during ethnographic research.