Inspired by a Harvard student campaign to raise awareness of racial ignorance in the university, students at Oxford launched a similar photo project to share their experiences as international students and students of color and start a dialogue within the university.

"People of color have been studying here since the 1870s, but where are our portraits," one student wrote. 

"Don't use 'where are you from' as a euphemism for 'explain to me why you're not white,'" another student wrote. 

The anecdotes of ignorance and patronizing attitudes further illustrate the reality of academia, in the U.S. as well as outside of it.

Check out the photos here.