Afua hirsch biography of barack
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How The Word Is Passed
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - which offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping a nation's collective history, and our own.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of ten
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
In Britain, we are taught not to see race. We are told that race does not matter. We have convinced ourselves that if we can contort ourselves into a form of blindness, then issues of identity will quietly disappear.
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We want to be post-racial, without having ever admitted how racial a society we have been.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging is an important and well written contribution to the debate in Britain alongside Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and The Good Immigrant.
I was initially drawn to the book for two reasons.
Firstly, and perhaps the best general recommendation of this book, because it provoked a critical review from David Goodhart, cheerleader for the neo-liberal Powellites, Prospect Magazine editor turned Daily Mail polemicist. If his passions are aroused in opposition then it is likely Hirsch has made some telling points.
Secondly, and to declare a personal interest, while I don't know the the author, I live in the same Wimbledon that she portrays so effectively (and critically), my daughter's attend the same school that Hirsch herself attended and her daughter now attends. And I myself am white but my children hav
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