Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga.
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TextPublisher: London : Pan Books, 2017Description: xxii, 602 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447299769 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Blacks -- Great Britain -- History | Blacks -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Blacks -- Race identity -- Great Britain -- History | Society | Society | Great Britain -- Race relations -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.8'96'041 Awards: PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017Summary: David Olusoga's 'Black and British' is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.
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Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
David Olusoga's 'Black and British' is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.
PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017
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